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On Sep 4, 2005, at 24:00, Finn Thain wrote: |
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> Are there known bugs with the ~ppc-macos baselayout? |
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Yes and no. There are design issues still in the works with it. I |
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think that the general consensus is that it's definitely _not_ ready |
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for prime-time, yet. |
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> Yes, and if devs used stable, that would improve QA also. If the |
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> dev that |
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> keyworded qt was using stable, s/he would have found that the qt |
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> deps were |
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> wrong because they don't include the baselayout requirement. |
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Uh, no? The x11-libs/qt deps are indeed correct. Please do your |
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homework before posting to this list; you should read up on Gentoo |
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policy about DEPENDS and packages that are in 'system', such as |
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baselayout. |
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Should Gentoo policy change, I would have absolutely no problem (and |
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would actually encourage) adding 'virtual/baselayout' to DEPENDS |
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where necessary. Brian Harring has also discussed this on gentoo-dev, |
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in relation to 'BDEPENDS'. |
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> Well, moving stable packages to testing also creates a misnomer. |
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Again, do your homework. Stable packages are a subset of testing |
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packages for any given arch. By specifying '~arch' in your KEYWORDS |
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(in /etc/make.conf), you are actually implicitly specifying 'arch'. |
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> Can someone explain what is to be gained from this that cannot be |
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> achieved |
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> with automated builds (e.g. to weed out the badly broken stable |
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> packages |
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> and check the deps of the ~ppc-macos packages); as well as a policy to |
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> relax the "30 day" rule? |
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What automated builds? AFAIK, we don't have an automated build |
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system, and one won't exist for a Real Long Time(tm). Once it does, |
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I'm all for keeping a stable branch. Until then, I find that keeping |
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a stable branch is way more work than we can keep up with, for all |
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the reasons cited in my previous message(s) to this list. |
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I don't mean to sound rude, here; I apologize in advance if I do. |
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Please don't take any of this personally. |
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Hasan Khalil |
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eBuild and Porting Co-Lead |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |