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Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 09.05 +0300, Eray Aslan ha scritto: |
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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 |
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> 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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Okay this is tricky. |
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From one side, we've done this before. Do note: we are _not_ going to |
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accept forced or non-use-masked dependencies for packages that are not |
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in tree, but || () dependencies on non-existing packages have been used |
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before, for instance while Gentoo/FreeBSD was still in its original |
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development. |
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On the other hand handling the current new-style virtual mess is enough |
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of a task without having to bend over backward to overlays. |
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As long as _somebody_ feels like doing the work, I suppose it's fine. |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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