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On Sat, 2019-12-21 at 08:21 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:54:44 -0500 |
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> Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Yes, I think you misunderstand something, but I'm not sure exactly how. |
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> I think the missing part of my understanding might be that IDEPEND |
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> needs to be satisfied by: |
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> - Packages installing binpkg's ( which don't need src_fetch, unpack, etc ) |
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> - Package managers *removing* packages. |
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> As in, if a package declares IDEPEND="foo" |
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> And "foo" is not available when asking portage to "emerge -C bar" |
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> Portage must demand that "foo" is reinstalled to allow "bar" to be |
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> removed ( as foo needs to be there to complete pkg_*rm ) |
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> This probably gonna make package manager fun :) |
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Hence, ebuilds will need to account for the dependencies actually being |
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missing in pkg_*rm. And the package managers must not implement |
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proactive depcleaning of IDEPEND. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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