On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:35:42 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> This probably could have used a news item, as the change impacts both > stable and ~arch users. Are we going to write a news item every time systemd acquires a new mandatory relationship with a reverse dependency? > They need to do an "emerge -1 sys-power/upower-pm-utils" to actually > get the new package, But the user doesn't want systemd; so, then why does the user have to perform a manual step every time that systemd has an acquirement? > otherwise portage is going to try to switch them from udev to > systemd, There is the problem, the user doesn't want systemd; so, why is Portage (regardless of a systemd mask) trying to bring it to the user anyway? > since packages like kdelibs list upower first, and portage > has no way of knowing that this is a big change. And this is where you can make Portage smarter. http://www.funtoo.org/Flavors_and_Mix-ins We don't have to go through all this if you had a "no-systemd" mix-in, where you could simply make out the choices in favor of the user instead of having to document and announce them all over the place. That mix-in could do something like masking the new upower that depends on systemd; when doing so, no more blockers all over the place. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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