Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 20:27 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 28-11-2008 10:57:18 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:36 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > On 28-11-2008 11:35:23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 09:13 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Eventually, sys-devel/libperl should generally be package.masked for
> > > > > > FreeMiNT (as 'irrelevant', lol), or at least install nothing.
> > > > >
> > > > > I did try that a while ago, but it threw up lots of horrible problems
> > > > > with DEPEND/RDEPEND. So what's the correct way to package.masked this to
> > > > > install nothing ??
> > > >
> > > > You could either package.provide it, or in the ebuild just 'return 0' in
> > > > src_unpack(), src_compile() and src_install().
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure which one is more obvious, even with appropriate comments.
> > >
> > > How about just dropping the depend on m68k-mint?
> >
> > Recommended way ??
>
> !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )

What if simply not keywording sys-devel/libperl - or p.masking, and then
doing:

  ( sys-devel/libperl || dev-lang/perl )

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level