Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Tom Wijsman]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:10:20 +0300
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:

> On 22/07/14 04:05, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
> >
> > And just for fun, since no one has mentioned it yet, dynamic deps
> > don't work at all on binpkgs since the Packages file contains the
> > deps (like vardb) and it doesn't get updated (just like vardb).
>
> Known long standing pitfall. It's managable.

It is one of the reasons I see binpkgs as breaking progress instead of
being part of the progress; it is manageable, but it could be better.

> > Revbump or make dynamic deps actually work (ha).
>
> If they are really as broken people claim, why is the feature enabled
> by default in the
> official package manager?

Why are these discussions resounding more strongly with each occurrence?

> As in, why I'm not seeing a bug with title "sys-apps/portage: disable
> dynamic deps by default"

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516612

> with a Comment #0 listing all the culprits why it should be disabled
> by default?

They've been gathered throughout this thread; yes, they could use a
summary, but that doesn't change that all the culprits exist out there.

> Or do people think it works well enough, so that it's pros overweight
> the cons? I do,
> and many others seem to think so as well.

Depends on what the pros and cons are; it makes the difference between
merely thoughts and an actual reality, to construct towards a decision.

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Gentoo Developer

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