From gentoo-dev Fri Apr 26 18:12:02 2013 From: "Robin H. Johnson" Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:12:02 +0000 To: gentoo-dev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=136699992813964 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > William Hubbs schrieb: > > if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something like > > IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, people will still be hit if they > > do emerge --depclean before they emerge gentoo-oldnet. > > In my opinion USE flags should toggle dependencies only in > metapackages or rare exceptions. > I suggest to include gentoo-oldnet (or whatever name you choose for > it) in the @system set once it is stable, and until then be a hard > dependency of OpenRC. Please note that openrc itself is NOT in the @system set. sys-apps/baselayout is, and has PDEPEND on openrc. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85