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On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:05:48AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445 |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401 |
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> Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda |
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> and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise. |
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> On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem |
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> right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their |
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> package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much to |
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> track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing |
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> whether it works. |
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> On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for |
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> overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official |
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> tree. |
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> Comments on how to proceed? Is it OK for a virtual to list a package |
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> which is in an overlay in RDEPEND? |
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I would say no for the reasons you list above. |
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I'm not an overlay user, but I'm thinking that an overlay user might be |
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able to get around this by putting the virtual in package.provided. |
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William |
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