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On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 11:14 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 05:59 Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> 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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> > > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> In most if not all cases, this is just a build-time dependency. Do we |
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> really have all these problems for build-time only dependencies? |
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Yes. Because of --with-bdeps. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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