Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-10-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Proposal 3a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass is changed, the >>> eclass must be revisioned

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-10-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > So, here is a consolidated list of the latest proposals: > It has been suggested that there might be rare cases where the exceptions in the eclass proposals might apply to ebuilds, so doing some refactoring I think the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-10-11 Thread Rich Freeman
Ok, in the Council meeting today the following was made policy: "Maintainers must not assume that dynamic dependencies will be applied by the package manager. When changing runtime dependencies the maintainer should revision the ebuild if the changes are likely to cause problems for end users."

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-10-02 Thread Martin Vaeth
Rich Freeman wrote: > > Proposal 3a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass is changed, the > eclass must be revisioned unless all ebuilds in the gentoo repository > will continue to work correctly with the old RDEPEND. > Proposal 4a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-10-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Proposal 3a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass is changed, the >> eclass must be revisioned unless all ebuilds in the gentoo repository >> will continue to work correctly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 09/17/2015 05:22 PM, Duncan wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:31:36 +0100 as excerpted: > >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:14:59 +0100 Markos Chandras >> wrote: >>> could someone explain what the dynamic dependencies are in the context >>> of portage and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > So council was called in, and it asked the portage folks to take some > steps that, portage development being what it is, had the effect of > slowing down and delaying things for long enough that, hopefully, people > have had

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-17 Thread Duncan
Kristian Fiskerstrand posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:43:47 +0200 as excerpted: > fwiw, I've been running for quite a while with dynamic deps disabled on > a few of my computers for quite some time, specifically the workstations > (desktop/laptop), and the sun hasn't dropped out of the sky yet.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-17 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:31:36 +0100 as excerpted: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:14:59 +0100 Markos Chandras > wrote: >> could someone explain what the dynamic dependencies are in the context >> of portage and ebuilds? because that does seem to be something

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-17 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:46:50 -0400 as excerpted: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> So council was called in, and it asked the portage folks to take some >> steps that, portage development being what it is, had the effect of >> slowing