On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:24:27 -0500 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:18:00PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, all. > > > > Since nowadays udev is bundled within systemd, we start having two > > libudev providers: >=sys-apps/systemd-185 and sys-fs/udev. Making > > the long story short, I would like to introduce a virtual for > > libudev which would pull in either of those two. > > > > There are three USE flags used in conditionals when depending on > > udev: > > - gudev - for glib wrapper on udev, > > - hwdb - to pull in hwids, > > - static-libs. > > > > The former two were previously provided by 'extras' USE flag, > > and the third was unconditional. > > > > I'm attaching an example virtual/libudev which does the job. Sadly, > > because of the 'extras' compatibility it's a big ugly conditional. > > I'm going to ask here, because of the discussion on IRC, that you not > commit this yet. There are issues still we need to work out wrt > packaging systemd and udev. So, can I commit the virtual and finally start fixing people's systems or are we going to discuss this to the day when other options are no longer a possibility and virtual will be necessary? You seem still not to understand that upstream *does not care*. And either way, merging udev and systemd will result that two, four or six months from now users will need to manually re-adjust their @world to have the packages split again. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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