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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:47:35 -0500 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 03/02/2017 09:24 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND. |
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> >> That makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will |
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> >> break" rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's |
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> >> not an error to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy |
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> >> everyone doing DEPEND="${RDEPEND}". |
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> > |
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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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Actually you can't have nice things because the labels proposal was |
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voted down for "being invented by the wrong people". |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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