[gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] making autotools.eclass depends flexible

[Jonathan Callen]

On 03/06/2010 02:11 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> What we use in Java is JAVA_PKG_OPT_USE to declare what use flag the
> DEPENDs should be under. This approach doesn't allow the ebuild
> maintainer to forget adding the depends.

That approach also disallows (or makes unduly difficult) making the
dependency such that "I need autotools on USE=kernel_SunOS or
USE=kernel_freemint, but nowhere else" or "I need autotools when USE=foo
and USE=bar, but not otherwise".

-- 
Jonathan Callen