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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11 RDEPEND changes without revisions
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:45:58
Message-Id: fe8e47295b2f47fa1fc60c8eab9b16b3f56e1cd3.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11 RDEPEND changes without revisions by Sergei Trofimovich
1 On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 20:03 +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
2 > On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:25:04 -0400
3 > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > When you ignore the devmanual and the pkgcheck warning and the 10+
6 > > threads I've started about the issue, and make changes like...
7 > >
8 > > --- a/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
9 > > +++ b/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
10 > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
11 > > -# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
12 > > +# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
13 > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
14 > >
15 > > EAPI=6
16 > > @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
17 > > x11-apps/bitmap
18 > > x11-apps/iceauth
19 > > x11-apps/luit
20 > > - x11-apps/mkfontdir
21 > > - x11-apps/mkfontscale
22 > > + >=x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.2.0
23 > > x11-apps/sessreg
24 > >
25 > >
26 > > This is what portage does:
27 > >
28 > > $ sudo emerge -uDN @world
29 > > Password:
30 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
31 > >
32 > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "x11-apps/mkfontdir".
33 > > (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r3::gentoo"
34 > > [installed])
35 > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
36 > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
37 >
38 > After PAM virtual removal and a bunch of similar large-scale
39 > changes done by QA members I assume it's a new norm and
40 > should be documented as such.
41 >
42
43 You could also try to understand the difference between the two,
44 and the purpose in not causing unnecessary rebuilds just to make it
45 possible to depclean a zero-byte package. But I suppose being sarcastic
46 is the new norm and should be documented as such.
47
48 --
49 Best regards,
50 Michał Górny

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