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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:15:11
Message-Id: 517AC421.9000009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC by "Robin H. Johnson"
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4 On 26/04/13 02:12 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
5 > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher
6 > Nguyễn wrote:
7 >> William Hubbs schrieb:
8 >>> if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something
9 >>> like IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, people will still be hit
10 >>> if they do emerge --depclean before they emerge gentoo-oldnet.
11 >>
12 >> In my opinion USE flags should toggle dependencies only in
13 >> metapackages or rare exceptions. I suggest to include
14 >> gentoo-oldnet (or whatever name you choose for it) in the @system
15 >> set once it is stable, and until then be a hard dependency of
16 >> OpenRC.
17 > Please note that openrc itself is NOT in the @system set.
18 >
19 > sys-apps/baselayout is, and has PDEPEND on openrc.
20 >
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22 Are we all OK with putting the new package in PDEPEND in baselayout
23 alongside the openrc dep, then? Seems that would suffice, plus would
24 allow users that really don't want it to package.provides it away ....
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>