Bug 568884 – [Future EAPI] Ban package.provided in profiles

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ulrich Müller 2015-12-20 16:06:01 UTC]

As discussed in the gentoo-dev mailing list:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/d7d732454cdfb8404549ec38c6e53ba8

package.provided is listed in PMS as "strongly deprecated" and "optional" since a long time. We should finally ban it in the next EAPI.

(This is _not_ about package.provided in /etc/portage/profile which is Portage
only and unspecified by PMS. 


CCing prefix. Some of the prefix profiles contain a package.provided with entries like sys-darwin/libsystem-71 or sys-linux/glibc-0. However, I don't see the packages listed there in any dependency, neither in the Portage tree nor in the prefix overlay. So, are these package.provided files still needed for anything?

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2015-12-21 15:10:00 UTC]

These entries were there to satisfy Portage itself.  The glibc one may be necessary to satisfy deps from ebuilds, but they should be mostly conditionalised, for we have musl and more these days.

That said, I can image it can go.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2015-12-21 17:23:49 UTC]

(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #1)
> The glibc one may be necessary to satisfy deps from ebuilds, [...]

Notice that it's sys-*linux*/glibc-0. There is no such dependency anywhere. (There are some ebuilds with a USE conditional dependency on sys-libs/glibc which however doesn't occur in any package.provided.)

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2016-07-10 19:45:45 UTC]

Coming back to this. AIUI the package.provided files in prefix profiles are not needed any more, therefore I am going to remove them in a week from now.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2016-07-21 19:32:42 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #3)
> Coming back to this. AIUI the package.provided files in prefix profiles are
> not needed any more, therefore I am going to remove them in a week from now.

This part is done.

[Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow 2018-03-28 05:50:35 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=8621aa9b29e74dabdb426363a96d12ec2e036a15

commit 8621aa9b29e74dabdb426363a96d12ec2e036a15
Author:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2018-03-26 16:28:36 +0000
Commit:     Zac Medico <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-03-28 05:49:03 +0000

    Disallow package.provided in EAPI 7
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/568884
    Closes: https://github.com/mgorny/portage/issues/12

 pym/portage/eapi.py                  |  4 ++++
 pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)}

[Comment 6 Larry the Git Cow 2018-04-30 22:14:40 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=9b0e2ab4234179238c6b1bdef3c93e57f5b4f4bd

commit 9b0e2ab4234179238c6b1bdef3c93e57f5b4f4bd
Author:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2016-01-30 21:25:26 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-03-30 16:35:43 +0000

    EAPI 7: package.provided is banned.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/568884

 eapi-differences.tex |  4 ++++
 profiles.tex         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)}