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On 26/10/19 04:59, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:03:39 -0700 |
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> Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> wrote: |
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>> not used anymore |
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>> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/695698 |
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>> Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> |
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> Its likely this removal will cause the same kinds of problems faced by |
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> the recent virtual/pam removal, just its more insidious, as the |
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> dependency on the virtual is hidden away inside an eclass. |
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> But this still means that anything users have already installed will |
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> still depend on this, and without --changed-deps=y, it will break |
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> portage's resolution of anything currently installed using this crate. |
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> You can work-around this by -r1 bumping everything that used this |
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> eclass .... but this just goes to show why there's policy against |
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> eclasses changing the dependencies of their consumers without any |
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> consumer involvement. |
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tl;dr - play with fire .. you're gonna get burned .. :] |
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Good luck with the core aim .. there is probably a slow-and-steady approach |
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that will win through .. |