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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:03:30
Message-Id: 4DB2B1C0.2050708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? by Eray Aslan
1 On 04/22/2011 11:05 PM, Eray Aslan wrote:
2 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445
3 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401
4 >
5 > Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda
6 > and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise.
7 >
8 > On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem
9 > right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their
10 > package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much to
11 > track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing
12 > whether it works.
13
14 I would assume that it's the overlay maintainers' responsibility to test
15 and report any problems. Any such problems would should affect the
16 overlay users, so it shouldn't cause any regression for users who don't
17 choose to use the overlay.
18
19 > On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for
20 > overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official
21 > tree.
22
23 I don't imagine it's that much work to maintain a fork of the virtual.
24 It's just an inconvenience for users since the version from the overlay
25 might become temporarily outdated and cause problems with dependency
26 resolution.
27
28 > Comments on how to proceed?
29
30 Either way is fine. It's just a matter of whether or not collaboration
31 with the overlay is worthy of your time.
32
33 > Is it OK for a virtual to list a package
34 > which is in an overlay in RDEPEND?
35
36 Yes, that's fine. For || dependencies, repoman will be satisfied as long
37 as there at least one provider available for a given profile.
38 --
39 Thanks,
40 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>