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| author |   Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2021-08-15 08:33:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2021-08-15 08:33:36 +0200 |
| commit | 27a05bcff5d4ba814b3c1279937e3b38c3c925a5 (patch) | |
| tree | fd5a476acbd3a566bc904fb91e3c1247f16af28f /_sources | |
| parent | Rebuild the site (diff) | |
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Rebuild / update
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | _sources/dependencies.rst.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | _sources/deprecation.rst.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | _sources/installed-files.rst.txt | 18 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/_sources/dependencies.rst.txt b/_sources/dependencies.rst.txt index a1f5177..c0afb81 100644 --- a/_sources/dependencies.rst.txt +++ b/_sources/dependencies.rst.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ dependencies is installed. There is no specific preference as to how user should be informed of optional runtime dependencies. Three possible ways are -``optfeature`` from ``eutils`` eclass, ``readme.gentoo-r1`` eclass -and plain ``elog`` messages. +``optfeature`` eclass, ``readme.gentoo-r1`` eclass and plain ``elog`` +messages. *Rationale*: toggling USE flags in order to enable or disable optional runtime dependencies causes needless rebuilds of packages in question. diff --git a/_sources/deprecation.rst.txt b/_sources/deprecation.rst.txt index 83284f5..1fb03a6 100644 --- a/_sources/deprecation.rst.txt +++ b/_sources/deprecation.rst.txt @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ Deprecated eclasses ------------------- :PG: 1003 :Source: individual eclass maintainers -:Reference: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/metadata/qa-policy.conf :Reported: by pkgcheck and repoman Deprecated eclasses should not be used in new ebuilds. Existing diff --git a/_sources/installed-files.rst.txt b/_sources/installed-files.rst.txt index db949b0..da6263e 100644 --- a/_sources/installed-files.rst.txt +++ b/_sources/installed-files.rst.txt @@ -88,3 +88,21 @@ and caused many issues, in particular due to hardcoding full paths. Today they are practically replaced by more portable pkg-config files, and while libtool keeps generating them, they are considered unnecessary and potentially harmful. + + +.. index:: + pair: installed files; virtuals + +Virtuals +-------- +:PG: 0304 +:Source: QA +:Reported: no + +Packages in the ``virtual`` category must not install any files. + +*Rationale*: The ``virtual`` category is reserved for packages with +an empty installation image. Package managers rely on this for some +optimizations. Also QA tools make certain assumptions about virtuals, +e.g., that they must not assign the ``LICENSE`` variable (which would +be impossible if they installed any files). |