On 2020-09-04 08:54, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > py37 will (*) still be installed as it cannot be depcleaned because of > 1. emerge won't fail since deps are satisfied. > > > (*) or rather should, but I think the only case that matters is a valid > system state where noone forced uninstall of a needed package or > manually rm'ed some random files >
There's no need to speculate; use pkgcore for a month and come back and tell me how much comfort these hypotheticals were. >> or.. >> >> 3b. Some reverse dependency of foo-1.2.3 gets python-3.8 support. >> 4b. A user tries to install that revdep, but the PM sees that >> the latest version of foo is already installed, and it (the >> installed version) doesn't support python-3.8. Mysterious >> error messages and manual intervention ensue. > > > precisely the case I wrote above: unsatisfied dep -> pull ebuild. > non-issue too. It's easy to say "well this is not an issue because it can be solved by <thing no package manager does and is not part of the PMS>..." If it's easy, get it added to the PMS and I'll agree with you.
