Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-pms] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:45:13 +0100
"Steven J. Long" <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 06:56:14PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > A := only makes sense for a dependency that is present both at build
> > time and at runtime. Currently, the only place you should be seeing
> > a := is on a spec that is listed in both DEPEND and RDEPEND.
> >
> > Conceptually, the := applies to "the spec that is in both DEPEND and
> > RDEPEND". But with the current syntax, there's no such thing as "the
> > spec that is in both". There are two specs, which happen to be
> > identical as strings, one in DEPEND and one in RDEPEND, and there's
> > no way for the two to be associated.
> >
> Now that *is* dishonestly ignorant: you know full well that LDEPEND
> [1] covers exactly that case.

Everyone else knows full well that LDEPEND is such a badly broken idea
that it's not worth discussing...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh