Hi fellow devs! One thing that annoys me since some time are packages pulling in sys-apps/hotplug unconditionally.
How should the dependencies on hotplug/hotplug-base and udev be managed: Some problems with current tree: The problem with hotplug is, that it breaks in combination with udev-103 in several ways. One known to me is firmware-loading. Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147006 Some ebuilds depending on hotplug (incomplete list): DEPEND="sys-apps/hotplug" net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware net-wireless/acx-firmware net-wireless/atmel-firmware media-libs/libgphoto2 sys-apps/hal DEPEND="|| ( sys-fs/udev sys-apps/hotplug )" ./app-emulation/xen-tools DEPEND="|| ( >=sys-fs/udev-103 sys-apps/hotplug )" ./media-tv/wis-go7007 DEPEND="|| ( >=sys-fs/udev-096 >=sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 )" net-wireless/zd1211-firmware DEPEND="udev? ( >=sys-fs/udev-068 ) !udev? ( >=sys-apps/hotplug-20040920 )" sys-apps/pcmciautils Some more problems (minor ones, but even more confusing to users): It installs files not used but confusing users like /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130766 It creates empty /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware that is no longer used (now: /lib/firmware) Bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124427 Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
