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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11 RDEPEND changes without revisions
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:04:11
Message-Id: 20200807200359.29c02449@sf
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11 RDEPEND changes without revisions by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:25:04 -0400
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > When you ignore the devmanual and the pkgcheck warning and the 10+
5 > threads I've started about the issue, and make changes like...
6 >
7 > --- a/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
8 > +++ b/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
9 > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
10 > -# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
11 > +# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
12 > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
13 >
14 > EAPI=6
15 > @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
16 > x11-apps/bitmap
17 > x11-apps/iceauth
18 > x11-apps/luit
19 > - x11-apps/mkfontdir
20 > - x11-apps/mkfontscale
21 > + >=x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.2.0
22 > x11-apps/sessreg
23 >
24 >
25 > This is what portage does:
26 >
27 > $ sudo emerge -uDN @world
28 > Password:
29 > Calculating dependencies... done!
30 >
31 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "x11-apps/mkfontdir".
32 > (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r3::gentoo"
33 > [installed])
34 > (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
35 > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
36
37 After PAM virtual removal and a bunch of similar large-scale
38 changes done by QA members I assume it's a new norm and
39 should be documented as such.
40
41 I ended up enabling --changed-deps by default on my systems
42 to make them upgradeable.
43
44 --
45
46 Sergei

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11 RDEPEND changes without revisions "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>