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On 03/02/2017 06:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 03/02/2017 09:24 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>>> In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND. That |
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>>> makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will break" |
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>>> rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's not an error |
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>>> to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy everyone doing |
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>>> DEPEND="${RDEPEND}". |
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>> Portage has interesting behavior for ":=" in DEPEND: it varies |
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>> depending on your "with-bdeps" setting. |
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> |
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> This is why we can't have nice things. |
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For those that are interested, I'm planning to to make --with-bdeps |
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automatically enabled when possible: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598444#c4 |
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I hope to implement this very soon, to be included in the next portage |
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release. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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