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cschwan
gap-core remove recommended_pkgs useflag
gap-core is causing alot of trouble when updating. Also ebuild shouldn't have useflags for runtime optional packages so if those packages are necessary to run sage, add them as a dependency there.
See https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/dependencies.html#pg0001
Hi Alessandro,
Sorry for taking so long to provide you with some answers. I am aware that gap-core is giving difficulties for upgrading. I haven't been able to provide any kind of smooth upgrade path between major revision of gap since at least gap-4.10. I have been trying to get some way to handle gap package dependencies and sources in somewhat consistent ways and failing with one issue or another each time. I am hoping that 4.11.0 forward will be better.
For the recommended packages, yes I could and probably should handle it some other way. They are expected by sage as part of a minimal gap install. The list does not come from sage but from gap upstream itself as the minimum recommended set if my memory serves me right. I could handle it as a meta package which I would hope would be OK with you. My issue with meta package is that the last time I tried to provide one for sage (before gap 4.9) I ended up abandoning it. So far updating the list in the gap ebuild itself has been a better assurance that it would be maintained.
I've reworded the first message because it was too broken. The usual policy for runtime optional packages is to not depend on them and instead send a message to the user with optfeature. Also I'm not getting the point of the meta package maintenance: what's the burden with it?
I'm trying to make some changes locally but I've hit another issue
The kill all problems procedure for upgrading is probably still https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/blob/master/metadata/news/2019-04-08-gap-upgrade/2019-04-08-gap-upgrade.en.txt
The maintenance problem is always I am a lone maintainer. But if I have the motivation because of policy I probably can do that :)
Is this still an issue? At least recommended_pkgs seems to be gone.
(Apologies if this is a dumb question; I know very little about Gentoo)
Yes I removed quite a bit of stuff at gap 4.12 and this is certainly obsolete. Although, Alessandro may have new complaints since then :)