Dnia 2015-04-11, o godz. 16:00:36 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> El sáb, 11-04-2015 a las 14:28 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > > 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 > > > > As that USE flag should only be used for being able to install the > package the first time, maybe it should be treated in a "special" way. I > mean, it shouldn't be easily changed by users but, instead, switched > "internally" by the package manager to allow to unbreak the cycle. > > Otherwise, we could end up with people having packages built with > "bundled" libs forever because they enabled that USE at some point and > later they forgot (or were too lazy) to revert that :| Yes, that's why I suggest a generic flag rather than another USE=internal-*. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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