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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
From: William Hubbs <williamh () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2013-04-26 18:53:59
Message-ID: 20130426185359.GA19527 () linux1
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:14:57PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
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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 ....
No, because the goal is o remove the pdepend from baselayout eventually
[1].
William
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409385
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