On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:30:11 +0000 "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> Sounds like Samuli is being a pr*ck by forcing systemd on everyone > now. Which is a lot better than to have it break by the lack thereof. > A proper solution would have been to have the upower ebuild > select systemd as a dependency ONLY when the systemd useflag is set. And who is going to maintain all that. > And depend on upower-pm-utils when it is not set. "The usage of a USE flag should not control runtime dependencies when the package does not link to it. Doing so will create extra configuration for the package and re-compilation for no underlying file change on disk. This should be avoided and instead can be conveyed to the user via post install messages if needed." http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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