On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:34:10 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 22:56 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Yes, it does. I'm not sure if it leads anywhere, though. Dynamic > > deps are a pipe dream. You can't implement them properly, so we're > > using half-working implementation as an excuse to be lazy. > > Why not adapt the updates mechanism for modifying rdepends? Perhaps > something like > > rdepends-add foo-bar/blah-3.14 "wombat? ( >=dev-libs/wombat-1.0 )" > > This would give the package manager all the benefits of static dep > resolution while allowing us to dynamically make simple changes (like > adding a missing dependency to an ebuild) without forcing users to > rebuild the package. Thinking this through: 1) What about rdepends-change and rdepends-del? If you only support addition; you get the same problem as with things like pkgmove, changing and/or removing it could become somewhat problematic. 2) This needs two commits every time you want to do this; one commit for the updates/, another to keep the ebuild recent for (rev)bumps. 3) It'll be a lot of fun to attempt to support this in Repoman. 4) How do we clean up these entries? Doesn't this info grow fast? 5) The first paramater: Should that point to a single ebuild? Should that support ranges? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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