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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About adding "systemd" to profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/use.stable.mask
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:43:39
Message-Id: 1361717011.20067.45.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About adding "systemd" to profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/use.stable.mask by Rich Freeman
1 El dom, 24-02-2013 a las 09:35 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió:
2 > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3 > > I would like to ask about adding "systemd" USE flag to use.stable.mask
4 > > to let us stop needing to revbump packages with optional systemd support
5 > > when stabilizing them.
6 > >
7 > > Are you ok with that?
8 >
9 > Am I interpreting the impacts of this correctly? I believe this would
10 > mean that if you ran systemd on an otherwise-stable system (that is,
11 > only systemd and possibly udev are in package.keywords) then you won't
12 > get systemd support in any of your other packages, even if it is
13 > available in a stable version of that package? My only VM running
14 > systemd just happens to be in that configuration, but I'm willing to
15 > admit that I'm a bit of an edge case. :)
16 >
17 > Why exactly do we need to revbump packages with optional systemd
18 > support when stabilizing them in the first place? ~arch users would
19 > already have systemd support compiled if they use it, and stable users
20 > would get it when it is stabilized.
21 >
22 > I freely admit that there might be some nuance that I'm simply not
23 > getting here...
24 >
25 > Rich
26 >
27 >
28
29 We need to revbump it because we cannot mark as stable a package that
30 would pull a testing package when enabling a USE flag.
31
32 Isn't there any way to unmask systemd USE flag on your local setup
33 (running testing systemd)?

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