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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:06:21
Message-Id: 53D4EB28.3020504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by hasufell
1 On 27/07/14 14:50, hasufell wrote:
2 > Samuli Suominen:
3 >> On 26/07/14 15:49, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 >>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:41:16 +0000 (UTC)
5 >>> Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
6 >>>> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
7 >>>>> Dynamics deps are already broken, not consistently enabled (e.g.
8 >>>>> when subslots are in use)
9 >>>> Just to make it clear: No, dynamic deps are not broken.
10 >>> Yes they are.
11 >> We just succesfully converted ~300 ebuilds in tree without revision
12 >> bumps from virtual/udev[gudev,introspection,static-libs]
13 >> to virtual/libudev and virtual/libgudev
14 >> Tested it on multiple boxes, went fine. Nobody has filed bugs at
15 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/, nobody has filed a single forums post,
16 >> nobody has said anything at #gentoo, Freenode
17 >> Only one person said he had to manually build 2 GNOME related packages,
18 >> simple-scan and something else
19 >>
20 >> So, broken? Far from it. More like essential feature.
21 >>
22 >> People have just listed some known races dynamic deps have, and I take
23 >> those races anyday over an regression that causes
24 >> endless rebuilding...
25 >>
26 > I'm not sure if you realize that you just disabled dynamic deps support
27 > on most of those converted ebuilds.
28 >
29
30 There is a bug in the package manager, you mean.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps hasufell <hasufell@g.o>