Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for Council Agenda Items - 14 Oct 2014

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Michał Górny wrote:

> 2. Dependency updates [2] are stuck midway games. With no help from
> games team, the fact that most of the current dependencies don't
> make sense and that most of the games are proprietary, you shouldn't
> expect much sane progress anytime soon. Likely we're just going to
> end up updating the current dependencies knowing they're likely
> wrong.

"Il meglio è l'inimico del bene." -- Voltaire

You could start with the dependencies currently in ebuilds, and in
addition use tools like scanelf or lddtree for scanning the binaries
installed by the package. (Or even the old tools for porting packages
to modular X [4] could be used; it's a very similar task.)

IMHO this would give you a very reasonable approximation of the true
dependencies. Some details (like correct USE dependencies on libSDL)
might be missed, but these can be fixed later. In any case, the
updated dependencies will be an improvement over the current ones,
so I won't see any of these small imperfections as a blocker.

Ulrich


> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498010
> [2]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Multilib_porting_status#Dependency_update_status
> [3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513718

[4] https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/porting-modular-x-howto.xml