Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing 'selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-*)' from DEPEND

[Tom Wijsman]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:30:29 +0000
Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:

> [...]
>
> With this change, we implement the same end result (correctly labeled
> files after installation) while removing the need for the DEPEND
> dependency. After all, this was not a build-time dependency but a
> "merge-time" one, which we abused a bit to make things work.
>
> With this change in place, we can now update the tree (at least, for
> those packages that do not have other SELinux related dependency
> requirements - those that link with libselinux still need it in
> DEPEND of course) to remove the USE="selinux" conditional dependency
> from DEPEND.
>
> Given the discussion on dynamic dependencies and so, I am thinking
> about doing this as follows:
>
> 1. Create a tracker with separate bugs for every package where this
> change can be made
> 2. Give developers time to apply this (simple) change together with
> whatever other changes they were planning.
> 3. After 6 months or so, do the change myself (with revbump)
>
> [...]
>
> Is this a good approach to take?
>
> [...]


LGTM; we should avoid unnecessary bumps & rebuilds for trivial changes,
especially when a USE flag based dependency line is removed from DEPEND.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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