On 03/06/2010 04:24 AM, Richard Freeman wrote: > On 03/05/2010 08:06 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 5 March 2010 04:18, Graham Murray<gra...@gmurray.org.uk> wrote: >>> 3. Include one or both of the packages in the stage tarball. >> None of the packages involved (gtk+, cups and poppler) is in any >> shape or form essential, so you will have a very hard time convincing >> people that this is the best solution. > > I tend to agree, but do consider this: > > 1. We wouldn't need to put all the packages in the dep list up to these > packages in the tarball - you could just put one package in the tarball > so that when emerge gets to this point it won't die. > > 2. You don't need to put that package in @system, so the first time the > user cleans out their install it will be removed. For server users it > will start out there but will eventually go away. > > It does increase the size of the tarball, which is of course > undesirable. We might also need to modify the build scripts since I'm > guessing those scripts look at @system to figure out what belongs in the > tarball and these packages don't need to be there. > > I do agree that it isn't really an ideal solution, and probably not the > first thing we should try...
Another possible solution would be distribute binary packages to users via PORTAGE_BINHOST. The user can simply set something like PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86"; in /etc/make.conf. Since DEPEND is ignored for binary packages, and circular RDEPEND doesn't block installation, the circular dependencies won't necessarily be an problem. The emerge --pretend output shows that emerge will go ahead and install those packages despite the circular RDEPEND: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [binary N ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r2 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl php png ppds python samba slp ssl tiff -kerberos -static -xinetd -zeroconf" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" [0] [binary N ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.18.6 USE="cups jpeg test tiff xinerama (-aqua) -debug -doc -jpeg2k -vim-syntax" [0] [binary N ] dev-python/pygtk-2.16.0-r1 USE="doc examples test" [0] [binary N ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.17 USE="bzip2 gtk python -doc -gnome -thumbnail" [0] [binary N ] app-text/poppler-0.12.4 USE="abiword cairo jpeg lcms png qt4 utils xpdf-headers -cjk -debug -doc -exceptions -jpeg2k" [0] -- Thanks, Zac
