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On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:54, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote |
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about '[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql': |
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> since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, |
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Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for |
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valid reasons? Sometime he does jump the gun though, so I don't doubt |
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that some of your bugs may be valid -- you can always add more information |
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to the bug and ask for it to be reopened. |
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> I'll report the issue |
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> to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a |
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> single second on reporting bugs ... |
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Bugzilla is *the only* official channel to get bugs reported so that the |
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developers will fix them. If you don't report your bugs, you'll just have |
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to wait for someone else to report or the developers to "accidentally" fix |
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the bug while working on something else. |
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> Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to |
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> postgresql. |
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I don't doubt it. It's generally better to depend on too much rather than |
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too little, and once things are "working" it's hard to get someone |
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to "fix" it and run the risk of breaking it further. |
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> Three cases: |
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> a) probably traditionally depended on the whole postgresql, maybe |
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> since before libpq was an own package. ie. qt, dovecot, ... |
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Have you confirmed these actually compile just against libpg? |
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> b) many apps (ie. webapps like bugzilla) have postgresql as dep., |
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> although they do not need it to be installed. (ie. bugzilla does |
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> not have to do anything directly w/ postgresql, since it uses |
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> perl-DBD for database access). Of course they maybe want to |
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> have access to some postgres database, but this obviously does |
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> not need an local server. |
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Are you sure this isn't bringing in postgresql to satisfy some virtual? |
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In all cases, you've confirmed that the dependency is direct and not USE |
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flag controlled? Also, have you patched the ebuild with the |
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changed/removed dependency and then sucessfully installed and run the |
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package on a system *without postgresql* installed? |
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What's the third case? |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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