Hi Kent,

Let's see if we can make a move with this before the end of the year.

The dep-horror is always what blocks these kinds of things from quickly
progressing.

Thanks,
Fabian

On 22-12-2018 13:31:07 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> I've been overall impressed with the progress made on recent
> keywording/stable requests for dev-perl/* prefix [1][2][3].
> 
> So I figured I'd put some effort into getting not only dev-perl/* ->
> dev-lang/perl up-to-scratch, but attempt to fix the warts between
> dev-lang/perl and the rest of ::gentoo
> 
> But uh, the deps are dark and full of terrors.
> 
> So I started by focusing on one dep: sys-libs/db , but even that has a
> nightmarish depgraph :/
> 
> Here's my current progress (attached) for what sort of things need to
> be changed ( as indicated by repoman -d -e y ) to make all necessary
> arches happy, but as you can see it gets crazy fast, turning up in
> java, emacs, systemd... 
> 
> So obviously some hacks to mask USE flags in profiles are going to be
> needed to make this happy.
> 
> So far my list includes:
> 
>                    ~amd64-fbsd :     2 packages
>                     ~x86-macos :    15 packages
>                     ~ppc-macos :    17 packages
>                   ~x64-solaris :    17 packages
>                   ~x86-solaris :    20 packages
>                     ~x86-linux :    22 packages
>                 ~sparc-solaris :    24 packages
>               ~sparc64-solaris :    24 packages
>                     ~m68k-mint :    25 packages
>                    ~x64-cygwin :    25 packages
>                     ~x64-macos :    26 packages
>                          ~mips :    27 packages
>                   ~amd64-linux :    32 packages
>                       ~ppc-aix :    67 packages
> ---
>                 [email protected] :     2 packages
>                [email protected] :    27 packages
>              [email protected] :    80 packages (   314 distinct keywordings )
> 
> So if there's some subset of keywords that maybe I should focus on
> getting done instead of doing a blanket request, that might help.
> (amd64-fbsd for instance currently looks easy, but might get out of
> hand eventually)
> 
> 
> 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/665088
> 2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667266
> 3: https://bugs.gentoo.org/671730


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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