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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
From:       Ian Stakenvicius <axs () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2013-04-26 18:14:57
Message-ID: 517AC421.9000009 () gentoo ! org
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On 26/04/13 02:12 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Are we all OK with putting the new package in PDEPEND in baselayout
alongside the openrc dep, then?  Seems that would suffice, plus would
allow users that really don't want it to package.provides it away ....


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