[gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Michael
Hi, I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad thing for packages to explicitly depend on packages in the system set,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday, August 22, 2011 15:21:23 Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad thing for packages to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2011-08-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi Vikram, there is one important aspect of your program that really needs to be documented (and comments in the code are not enough): What data exactly is the client sending to the server?! What you need is basically an easy-to-find file / web page / ... where this is explained concise and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. It would be great to integrate this into portage and make it a part of the developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: ban mirror://gentoo/ from ebuilds

2011-08-23 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On 18 August 2011 11:53, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org wrote: Il giorno gio, 18/08/2011 alle 05.46 -0400, Anthony G. Basile ha scritto: What alternative are you proposing to mirror://gentoo/ if upstream doesn't provide a tarball, eg with large patchsets the maintainer constructs?  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 23 of August 2011 18:54:04 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. It would be great to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:08 Tue 23 Aug , Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Tuesday 23 of August 2011 18:54:04 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA

[gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Michael
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday, August 22, 2011 15:21:23 Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Nathan Phillip Brink
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:53:26AM +1000, Michael wrote: Also, on a related note, would it be appropriate to report the following undeclared deps, given that the package in question already has DEPEND for gtk+? * Checking app-arch/guitar-0.1.4 for undeclared dependencies *

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 13:53:26 Michael wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday, August 22, 2011 15:21:23 Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependencies

2011-08-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:02:00 -0400 Nathan Phillip Brink bi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:53:26AM +1000, Michael wrote: Also, on a related note, would it be appropriate to report the following undeclared deps, given that the package in question already has DEPEND for gtk+?