Bug 219562 – merge app-portage/gentoolkit into sys-apps/portage

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Chris Lusena 2008-04-28 01:52:14 UTC]

Since my bug bug 219555 was declared to be a copy of bug 128069, but there are a number of user issue that should be address around this issue, at least at the distribution level. If an ebuild tells me to run a program, then I should be able to copy and pass the instruction to the command line as root and have everything work. gentoolkit looks nothing like revdep-rebuild and search on revdep did not work for me or other users see the discussion of bug 128069. 

I think that a modification of the ebuild file will work here and greatly reduce the number of bugs that get generated for you guys so that more serious work can get done.

Thanks.

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chris

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-04-28 02:32:43 UTC]

Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before.

[Comment 2 Chris Lusena 2008-04-28 02:47:45 UTC]

Alternatively in this case changing the instruction to mention app-portage/gentoolkit from dev-libs/expat might also fix the problem.

The major issue in bug 128069 seems to be that every one and their dog are insisting old/very old version of a library that one cannot have multiple version installed of, I do not see why but at least we could have cleaner easier versions of the work-a-rounds until this is cleared up.

Thanks for your time.

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Chris

[Comment 3 [e-mail] 2008-04-28 03:23:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system
> target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before.

Well, gentoolkit is a whole mess of packages users don't need. I'd be in favor of merging just revdep-rebuild with portage (understanding further that it might not be needed much longer, but waiting is dumb.)

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2008-04-28 05:28:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Something can be said for either adding app-portage/gentoolkit to the system
> > target or merging it with sys-apps/portage. It's certainly been said before.
> 
> Well, gentoolkit is a whole mess of packages users don't need. I'd be in favor
> of merging just revdep-rebuild with portage (understanding further that it
> might not be needed much longer, but waiting is dumb.)

Well I had planned to merge gentoolkit into portage after 2.2 is released, or at least the important functionality (equivalents for glsa-check and parts of revdep-rebuild are already in 2.2)
Might create a new package (not named gentoolkit-dev) for dev tools like repoman, echangelog and co later on to not bloat portage too much.