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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] improving alternative PM support in gentoo
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 18:03:57
Message-Id: 55CF7F03.2060205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] improving alternative PM support in gentoo by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 08/15/2015 10:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 08/15/2015 01:24 PM, hasufell wrote:
3 >> Do you see any other things that need to be tackled in order to get
4 >> there?
5 >
6 > Getting rid of dynamic deps in portage. Until then it's too easy for
7 > portage users to commit stuff that's broken to the stricter package
8 > managers.
9
10 Sure, dynamic deps is evil. However, for dependencies that come from
11 eclasses, it may be unavoidable to change dependencies of existing
12 ebuilds in ways that make dynamic deps matter.
13
14 Note that if a package manager has an option like emerge --changed-deps
15 and that option is used for all updates, then dynamic deps becomes a
16 moot point.
17 --
18 Thanks,
19 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-project] improving alternative PM support in gentoo Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>