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From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:56:43
Message-Id: 1228773399.9147.12.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem by Fabian Groffen
1 On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 02-12-2008 14:16:28 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:18 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > > > On 02-12-2008 08:58:23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
6 > > > > > > Recommended way ??
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
9 > > > >
10 > > > > What if simply not keywording sys-devel/libperl - or p.masking, and then
11 > > > > doing:
12 > > > >
13 > > > > ( sys-devel/libperl || dev-lang/perl )
14 > > >
15 > > > isn't it perl itself that depends on libperl?
16 > >
17 > > Yes, but that is irrelevant here.
18 > >
19 > > This is meant for packages needing the perl-library only - preferrably
20 > > shared (from sys-devel/libperl), or static (from dev-lang/perl) on MiNT.
21 >
22 > Do those exist? That is the most imporant here. Because then you need
23 > something like:
24 > || ( sys-devel/libperl m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl ) )
25 > probably better:
26 > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
27 > m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl)
28 >
29 > yeah, ugly, so the final solution highly depends on how often this is
30 > going to be necessary.
31
32 In mainline portage there's less than 10 packages that use
33 sys-devel/perl.
34
35 So shall I stick....
36
37 !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
38
39 in the dev-lang/perl ebuild as in the attached ebuild patch ?
40
41 Let me have any other comments on this too, and once it's o.k.ed I'll
42 send the actual perl-5.8.8-mint.patch too.
43
44 Alan.

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