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On 04/22/2011 11:05 PM, 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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I would assume that it's the overlay maintainers' responsibility to test |
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and report any problems. Any such problems would should affect the |
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overlay users, so it shouldn't cause any regression for users who don't |
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choose to use the overlay. |
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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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I don't imagine it's that much work to maintain a fork of the virtual. |
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It's just an inconvenience for users since the version from the overlay |
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might become temporarily outdated and cause problems with dependency |
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resolution. |
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> Comments on how to proceed? |
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Either way is fine. It's just a matter of whether or not collaboration |
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with the overlay is worthy of your time. |
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> 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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Yes, that's fine. For || dependencies, repoman will be satisfied as long |
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as there at least one provider available for a given profile. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |