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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:50:12
Message-Id: 20150329174950.19683f54@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86* by James Le Cuirot
1 Dnia 2015-03-29, o godz. 11:57:12
2 James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:13:32 +0200
5 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > > <app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-jna-20140508-r1
8 > >
9 > > Why do we need to keep app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-jna-20140508-r1 to
10 > > simply end up rdepending on
11 > > >=virtual/libffi-3.0.13-r1[abi_x86_32(-)] ? Also, no package in the
12 > > >tree rdepends on this emul set and, then,
13 > > packages outside portage could simply rdepend on libffi directly
14 > > instead of needing to keep this
15 >
16 > Michał, as already discussed with Pacho [1], emul-linux-x86-jna can just
17 > go away entirely. Nothing requires it and it doesn't make any sense
18 > without emul-linux-x86-java though I note that isn't in the list either;
19 > I thought it would be. Java herd is struggling with the regular VM
20 > packages enough as it is, we could really do without supporting this
21 > one as well. I very much doubt that end users need it any more. Any
22 > objections to removing it?
23 >
24 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474464#c5
25
26 I don't really want to touch Java stuff, so I'd prefer if you handled
27 that yourself. That said, feel free to add it to the same p.mask entry.
28 Just make sure not to break the dependency graph :).
29
30 --
31 Best regards,
32 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86* James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>