-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/12 04:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:08:53 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius > <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Bringing it back to the issue it's solving: > >> Afaict, for migration: > >> - - DEPEND changes to HDEPEND > > If we're going by Chromium, AFAICS they're only making this change > when they find they actually need it to get the resolver to give > "the right answer", and otherwise leaving DEPEND as-is. This > strikes me as being heavily in Doing It Wrong territory. > >> - - the new DEPEND now will be used for things that are >> *currently* in RDEPEND and DEPEND (so that things will work) but >> are not actually run-time dependencies. Said atoms will then be >> removed from RDEPEND (and not be included in the new HDEPEND >> either) as they aren't really supposed to be there in the first >> place. > > I'm not entirely sure that there are more than a handful of very > special cases that would be covered by the second point. Can > anyone provide examples? >
Bug 263343 , the 'fontconfig' dep for some package i wasn't able to find easily Bug 317337 (original HDEPEND proposal) mentions the x11-proto/xcb-proto dep for libxcb (and i assume anything else depending on xcb-proto) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlBKWPgACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDUFQEAhOF99mIqr/TXTOGFgdBdARg3 RSPlU8GQpxyEP2x9GPoA/07BSSTfoObc8COCTlpiC+RQP4zbUMwWODazNCszi/hx =BMvQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
