Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
Hi,
Hi Enrico, long time no see!
b) Marking that two related implementations are mutually incompatible at
runtime because they both provide the same binary.
Classical example: MTA's:
Traditionally they tend to provide an
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
Tiziano Müller wrote:
What do the new ebuilds offer:
a) A split into dev-db/postgresql-{base,server,docs}.
WRONG we aren't debian.
It's bad, just because Debian does it ?!
Sounds quite religions to me. I don't like religions i
Daniel Drake wrote:
2.6.25 was released today, gentoo-sources-2.6.25 is now in portage.
As usual this will break some packages in the portage tree (ones that
include kernel code), the tracker for such issues is here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218127
Jakub normally does a wonderfu
Tiziano Müller wrote:
Luca Barbato wrote:
It gives an annoyance please reconsider.
Done that. Won't change. See my answer to dberkholz's message.
As long you keep a meta package, as you told in the reply I read just
now, seems a good plan in the end.
lu
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I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting
overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is
accurate, given that usable means "has its RDEPENDs installed and
usable"?
1. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, any package dependency that is
in both DEPEND
On 05:31 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting
> overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is
> accurate, given that usable means "has its RDEPENDs installed and
> usable"?
>
> 1. During pkg_preinst and
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in
> installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which
> doesn't seem to make sense.
That's definitely not what we want. Only a package's DEPENDs
On 05:54 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in
> > installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which
> > doesn't seem to make sense.
>
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:27:21 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My interpretation is pkg_* counts as runtime (I can imagine a package
> wanting to run itself at this point), so packages in RDEPEND should
> be usable at that point.
Which would be fine, except it makes the tree unus
