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Fabio Erculiani wrote:
| Hi Joshua,
| I never had issues with my emails. So I don't really know what to
| answer you regarding to your issues :)
| SPLIT: Although I think it can be a suboptimal thing for us, I can
| understand your policy. Let me add that, to me, the biggest issue is
| about (R)DEPEND. Splitting packages and maintaining in an overlay it's
| not that hard.
|
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I personally have no desire to follow the redhat/debian/other binary
packaging systems which split up infinitesimally small packages. It
causes a lot more busywork in my opinion then any potential benefits
that it gains you.
As far as the depend issue you mentioned: Having both Rdepends and
Depends isn't as far as I'm aware part of any EAPI currently (Correct me
if I'm wrong people). Rdepends are needed for the builds so you will
often see either RDEPENDS=${DEPEND} or vice versa. If its not there then
its more of a matter of accounting then anything. I would think, and
correct me if I'm wrong again, that it would make sense that if you only
have RDEPENDS or DEPEND, then those same applications are required in
the runtime of the application. Does it need to be explicitly stated? So
far the three package manager that I'm aware of all manage this fine.
Those being portage, paludis, and pkgcore. If there are other package
managers out there that might have issues Its a perfect example of a
reason to be involved in the EAPI discussions to help define what is
needed and where.
So what I suggest to you is perhaps looking over the EAPI=0 draft
documentation and proposing some additions and or modifications that
benefit everyone (not just one person), as its designed to be a standard
for anyone who makes use of ebuilds and beyond.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spb/pms.pdf
Is the current form, but halcy0n is working on an updated version of it
for the next council meeting.
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