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From: Michael Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtual/cargo: drop virtual
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:24:32
Message-Id: 7bf8deff-49e9-c333-d4a5-2c19364e1841@veremit.xyz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtual/cargo: drop virtual by Kent Fredric
1 On 26/10/19 04:59, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:03:39 -0700
3 > Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> not used anymore
6 >>
7 >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/695698
8 >> Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
9 >
10 > Its likely this removal will cause the same kinds of problems faced by
11 > the recent virtual/pam removal, just its more insidious, as the
12 > dependency on the virtual is hidden away inside an eclass.
13 >
14 > But this still means that anything users have already installed will
15 > still depend on this, and without --changed-deps=y, it will break
16 > portage's resolution of anything currently installed using this crate.
17 >
18 > You can work-around this by -r1 bumping everything that used this
19 > eclass .... but this just goes to show why there's policy against
20 > eclasses changing the dependencies of their consumers without any
21 > consumer involvement.
22 tl;dr - play with fire .. you're gonna get burned .. :]
23
24 Good luck with the core aim .. there is probably a slow-and-steady approach
25 that will win through ..

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