Bug 643844

Summary:	[feature request] app-portage/unsymlink-lib should be mandatory in 17.1 profile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulenrich <ulenrich>
Component:	Profiles	Assignee:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	643770

Description Ulenrich 2018-01-08 00:31:46 UTC

Seeing me myself and others changing to profile 17.1 
without reading the NEWS 
I come up with this solution:

Make app-portage/unsymlink-lib a mandatory ebuild with info
about this profile change giving two hints:
a) read the fucking NEWS, give link
b) when transition is done put an entry 
in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2018-01-08 07:37:13 UTC

1. There's no real way to make a package 'mandatory', and given the feedback so far I honestly doubt users would update @world (or even @system) before switching profiles.

2. package.provided is very strongly discouraged. It just breaks stuff by design.

3. Users are expected to take special care before switching profiles. News items are obligatory. Moving from verbose info in news item to verbose info in postinst doesn't really guarantee anyone reading it. It just changes the probability a bit.

Comment 2 Ulenrich 2018-01-08 23:06:35 UTC

@Michal , thanks for explaining

A telling eselect for profiles would be fine.
And perhaps an "experimentals" USE flag
if the user wants to try then brand new.