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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:54:07
Message-Id: 20130426185359.GA19527@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:14:57PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
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5 > On 26/04/13 02:12 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
6 > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher
7 > > Nguyễn wrote:
8 > >> William Hubbs schrieb:
9 > >>> if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something
10 > >>> like IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, people will still be hit
11 > >>> if they do emerge --depclean before they emerge gentoo-oldnet.
12 > >>
13 > >> In my opinion USE flags should toggle dependencies only in
14 > >> metapackages or rare exceptions. I suggest to include
15 > >> gentoo-oldnet (or whatever name you choose for it) in the @system
16 > >> set once it is stable, and until then be a hard dependency of
17 > >> OpenRC.
18 > > Please note that openrc itself is NOT in the @system set.
19 > >
20 > > sys-apps/baselayout is, and has PDEPEND on openrc.
21 > >
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23 > Are we all OK with putting the new package in PDEPEND in baselayout
24 > alongside the openrc dep, then? Seems that would suffice, plus would
25 > allow users that really don't want it to package.provides it away ....
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27 No, because the goal is o remove the pdepend from baselayout eventually
28 [1].
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30 William
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32 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409385
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