Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:55:29
Message-Id: 20051126025454.0562e7ac@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... by Ned Ludd
1 On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:31:59 -0500
2 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 00:01 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
5 > > Hi all,
6 > >
7 > > I don't think there's really anything else that can be done for
8 > > 2.0.53 so am thinking that we should probably push _rc7 + docs out
9 > > and let the arch teams mark it stable when they're ready (or stick
10 > > with 2.0.51.22-r3 if it pleaseth them).
11 >
12 > [snip]
13 >
14 > > There's a few things listed on the new
15 > > (still unreleased?) project index and I'm looking to get the
16 > > dependency stuff refactored and moved out of emerge.. What are the
17 > > shortterm goals?
18 >
19 > For me my short term goals are to see these things happen
20 >
21 > * post_sync action hook (.53/.54 )
22 > * pax-utils depends ( .53 )
23
24 If we use it we have to dep on it, so not really a feature by itself.
25
26 > * new prepstrip offering splitdebug ( .53/.54 )
27 > * misc cleanups of dyn_install (.54 )
28 > * seeing CDPEND stop being created for the VDB ( .53 )
29
30 Yeah, CDEPEND has to die (although it technically never lived)
31
32 > * flattened vdb {P,R,}DEPEND (.54 )
33
34 See Jasons mail.
35
36 > * introduction of RRDEPEND to the VDB ( .54 )
37
38 Rename it to LDEPEND and it's ok (no reverse deps here, just forward
39 link level deps)
40
41 > * VDB prevention of single byte NULL entries being created. ( .54 )
42
43 Not sure what this means. Just prevention of empty files in vdb?
44
45 Marius
46
47 --
48 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
49
50 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
51 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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