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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