Re: [gentoo-project] Council: Policy for Systemd units

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Micha³ Górny wrote:

>> I was more thinking about support files for Emacs, where we do this
>> all the time: If the file is included with the upstream package,
>> it's being installed by that package's ebuild. Otherwise, it will
>> go into its own separate package. (And I guess it is similar for
>> Vim.)

> That's very inconsistent and therefore problematic for users. Some
> packages work out-of-the-box, others require manually merging
> additional packages...

There's nothing inconsistent about it. Different upstream, different
versioning scheme, different release cycles, therefore it goes into
its own package. Everything else would just be messy.

I guess it often would be a case for SDEPEND, but we don't have that
yet.

Ulrich