On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 20:03 +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:25:04 -0400
> Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > When you ignore the devmanual and the pkgcheck warning and the 10+
> > threads I've started about the issue, and make changes like...
> >
> > --- a/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
> > +++ b/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
> > +# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
> > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> >
> > EAPI=6
> > @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
> > x11-apps/bitmap
> > x11-apps/iceauth
> > x11-apps/luit
> > - x11-apps/mkfontdir
> > - x11-apps/mkfontscale
> > + >=x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.2.0
> > x11-apps/sessreg
> >
> >
> > This is what portage does:
> >
> > $ sudo emerge -uDN @world
> > Password:
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "x11-apps/mkfontdir".
> > (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r3::gentoo"
> > [installed])
> > (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
> > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>
> After PAM virtual removal and a bunch of similar large-scale
> changes done by QA members I assume it's a new norm and
> should be documented as such.
> You could also try to understand the difference between the two, and the purpose in not causing unnecessary rebuilds just to make it possible to depclean a zero-byte package. But I suppose being sarcastic is the new norm and should be documented as such. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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