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Hi -- |
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I'd like to abuse PROVIDE. Here's the story: |
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ruby-1.6.8 is the latest version of Ruby |
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rexml, yaml, optparse, and others are available as add-on packages |
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ruby-1.8.0 is coming Real Soon Now |
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rexml, yaml, optparse, and others are part of the ruby-1.8.0 distribution |
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If a package needs ruby and optparse I can write |
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DEPEND="( >=dev-lang/ruby-1.6 <dev-lang/ruby-1.8 dev-ruby/optparse ) |
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|| >=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.0" |
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but this means that I have to modify every ebuild that depends on any of |
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packages that are now part of ruby-1.8. |
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Question: is it OK to make dev-lang/ruby-1.8 PROVIDE rexml, yaml, etc.? e.g. |
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PROVIDE="dev-ruby/rexml dev-ruby/yaml dev-ruby/optparse" |
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Or will this cause problems? |
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Cheers, |
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Tom |
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