Hello, I know of two cases of circular deps that can be solved -- as far as I know -- only by bundling:
1. dev-util/pkgconfig <-> dev-libs/glib:2, 2. dev-util/cmake <-> dev-libs/jsoncpp. The former is solved via having USE=internal-glib on pkgconfig, the latter is yet unsolved [1]. I suspect we can expect more of this kind of issues in non-systemd world over time, and I feel like it'd be good to develop a generic policy for handling them. Something that could avoid having users go through this on a case-by-case basis. I think the simplest solution would be to develop a generic USE flag that would only serve the purpose of forcing bundled dependencies for bootstrapping/initial install. We have already: build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1] bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during original system bootstrapping [make stage2] However, since both are marked for 'internal use only', I don't think it's a good idea to use them here. So I guess we need a new flag. Does anyone have suggestions how to name it? Any other ideas? [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546130 -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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