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Recently, without discussion as suggested by the dev manual, new |
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virtuals were added for libudev and libgudev. |
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These virtuals are different than any virtuals use in gentoo in the |
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past, and due to this, I fell the discussion step is critical. As such, |
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I have put a temporary QA mask on these virtuals. |
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All below information is based on my understanding of what is happening |
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and why, since these new virtuals were added with no previous |
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discussion, I can only guess why things were done as they were. |
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These new virtuals represent a new idea in how to avoid needless subslot |
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rebuilds. In this case, it occurs that libudev and libgudev (both part |
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of the udev package at this time) can (and do) change soname separately. |
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This means that it is impossible to perform just needed subslot |
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rebuilds since the package udev can only have one subslot. |
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To battle this, virtual/libudev and virtual/libgudev were introduced, |
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each with the subslot indicating version of their namesake. In this |
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way, packages which currently dep on virtual/udev can be adjusted to dep |
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on one or both of the new virtuals and possibly avoid unneeded subslot |
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rebuilds. |
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All in all, this isn't a bad idea on the surface, but the first |
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arguement shows immediately when this is scaled up. How many other |
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packages have multiple libs with different sonames? Off hand, I can |
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think of poplar, but I'm sure there must be more. Is it really |
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scalable, desirable, or sane, to break each package on the system into |
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multiple different virtuals like this? |
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Discussion, go. |
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Thanks, |
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Zero |
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