https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401
Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise. On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much to track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing whether it works. On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official tree. Comments on how to proceed? Is it OK for a virtual to list a package which is in an overlay in RDEPEND? -- Eray Aslan Developer, Gentoo Linux eras <at> gentoo.org
