Re: [gentoo-dev] Deptree broken - remove keyword on many packages, or downgrade profile to "dev"?

On 5/8/13 2:56 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> the deptree of kde-base has been broken for over two months now (most likely
> more, it was already bad for a while when I filed bug 460532), and we cannot
> really commit new KDE releases without repoman --force option.
>
> A package is missing keyword ~amd64-fbsd, and so far noone from that team has
> responded to our repeated communication attempts.
>
> For the KDE team, I see two options:
> 1) remove amd64-fbsd keyword everywhere. This is "within our rights to do",
> but hits users badly (if there are any).
> 2) downgrade the amd64-fbsd profiles from "stable" to "dev" in
> profiles/profiles.desc. This has the big advantage that the impact for users
> is minimal, but enables us to work normally again at the same time. Needless
> to say, it's not really a usual step to take for anyone outside the amd64-fbsd
> team.
>
> Out of frustration I am slowly tending to just commit option 2 and take the
> resulting flak.

I support anything done to unbreak the tree.

If possible, masking USE flags or packages on amd64-fbsd sounds better
than switching the whole profile to dev, which is likely to introduce
even more breakages.

Paweł