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The problem is happening for real at http://bugs.gentoo.org/
show_bug.cgi?id=87758
there baselayout is necessary. However, baselayout is only pulled
in the initial "emerge system" if you use ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~ppc-
macos". Hence, I can't compile, because QTDIR is not set for me,
while someone having a complete ~ppc-macos system can. Portage
won't pull the dependency of baselayout for a reason I think, but
the particular problem sheds this light on the whole problem of how
to test what on which system.
This is basically the basis of Hasan and my proposal to drop stable
support for ppc-macos. The reason "emerge system" pulls in different
packages dependent on whether you are running ~ppc-macos or ppc-macos
is that baselayout-darwin and coreutils-darwin are not yet ready for
stable. What I mean by this is that they haven't been sufficiently
tested and may still change significantly.
The crux of the issue here is that we are only really pretending to
have stable support. We all agree that there are "stable" packages
that don't work. This is not "stable", and imho we shouldn't pretend
to have stable support when we really don't. Additionally, I think QA
would improve drastically if all developers could work on the same
system setup and expect users to have the same system setup.
Once we have the manpower and a less dynamic setup (right now our
profiles change frequently, we are toying with the prefixed-install
idea, baselayout and coreutils are changing) we definitely should
support stable. Until then I think it is just a misnomer that should
be dropped.
I still think that I either shouldn't have been able to emerge QT
or that "emerge system" should provide the same base for {,~}ppc-
macos, since portage doesn't pull these packages because they are
never depended on.
If we only had ~ppc-macos, this would have never happened, nor would
the bug on mediawiki.
I think you cannot sell a WONTFIX/REJECTED/INVALID to a user that
emerged unstable QT and doxygen on a stable profile. But people
may disagree with me here.
You probably could, but I agree that this is not a nice solution.
- --Lina Pezzella
Ebuild & Porting Co-Lead
Gentoo for OS X
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