On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2006.08.03 04:27, Lance Albertson wrote: > [snip] > > >There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link > >against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or forget > >that they installed that app from sunrise (and the dep exists), and a > >bug arises. > [snip] > > > >Anyways, I've been trying to keep quiet on this issue and decided I > >could interject here :) > > > >Cheers- > > > >-- > >Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager > > > >--- > >GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> > >Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 > > > >ramereth/irc.freenode.net > > > > How can that happen ? > Devs working on the regular tree should not have any third party > overlays installed in the test environment so their ebuild should fail > testing because it can't resolve the dependancy lurking in the overlay. > > What an I missing ? > Automatic dependencies. Eg. configure picking up fooapp being installed and enabling support for it without the ebuild explicitly enabling/disabling it. Of course, this would be a bug in the ebuild and should be fixed.
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