Bug 333907

Summary:	dev-lang/mono: PDEPEND on pe-format seems unnecessary
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	dotnet project <dotnet>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2010-08-22 07:17:17 UTC

Each version of dev-lang/mono in gx86 specifies dev-dotnet/pe-format as a dependency. Is that really necessary? I think mono itself would be as useful without pe-format, while the additional dependency results in another problem.

I would like to make sys-apps/pe-format2 [in Sunrise, bug #321233] a drop-in replacement for dev-dotnet/pe-format. That would imply using the same rc filenames, and thus the new package would become a blocker to dev-dotnet/pe-format. And this would imply blocking the whole dev-lang/mono, which is not exactly what I want to achieve.

Comment 1 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-08-29 11:23:50 UTC

Could we create a virtual here ie virtual/pe-format?  and have mono optionally depend on that?

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2010-08-29 20:47:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could we create a virtual here ie virtual/pe-format?  and have mono optionally
> depend on that?

A virtual package seems pretty pointless here. Similarly to the mono dependency on it.

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2010-09-07 21:06:18 UTC

+  07 Sep 2010; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> mono-2.6.7.ebuild,
+  metadata.xml:
+  Drop PDEPEND on pe-format (bug #333907 by Michał Górny), fix build on
+  hardened (bug #286280 by Jason Mattax and fix by Magnus Granberg) and
+  allow people to enable .NET 4.0 profile if they want (bug #326497 by Ron
+  MacNeil).