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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:45:20
Message-Id: BANLkTi=jX92PeCNESqiZqsMNaxG2Np-_WA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 06/02/2011 03:04 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
3 >> For this problem, I think some kind of per-ebuild ABI_DEPENDENT flag
4 >> should be used to recognize which packages ABI dependencies should
5 >> apply to. Without thinking about it too hard, it seems like perhaps
6 >> only packages in RDEPEND should be considered for ABI USE
7 >> dependencies.
8 >
9 > We can express it with either of the existing PROPERTIES or RESTRICT
10 > variables. This way, we don't need to add a whole new variable every
11 > time that we decide to add a boolean flag like this.
12 > --
13 > Thanks,
14 > Zac
15
16 Hi Zac,
17 Thanks for the response.
18
19 Have you looked at Tommy[D]'s work? What do you think needs to happen
20 for it to be merged?
21
22 Thanks,
23 Matt

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