On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:57, Marius Mauch wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > Reasoning on checking all system atoms is that other groups are just as > > likely to need the functionality as we are. Combining that with how > > rarely versions are actually updated for system packages, it shouldn't > > cause any more bother to users than it needs to. > > Well, that approach has one major problem: it won't help for profile > changes (like the mess with the cascaded profiles).
Making the tree DEPEND on a specific portage version won't help either. If the user doesn't have a profile, they have no ARCH or other important things which means they can't use emerge. > Also I don't see what "system" has to do with handling the tree itself, and > for anything else people can add dependencies, or am I missing something > here? Doing it via system is more generic with no loss in functionality that I can see. As I said above, the only time that not doing it in system would be useful is if system itself is not available but profile problems imply that one can't emerge anyway. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
