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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:59:45
Message-Id: 4E383AE0.1000800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends by "Michał Górny"
1 On 8/2/11 12:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:19:03 -0700
3 > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
4 >> I'm interested in some sort of suggested/recommend deps for
5 >> www-client/chromium, but I'm not sure if eclass is the right
6 >> implementation.
7 > I don't think we can start drafting until we agree on one solution.
8 > AFAICS there are two major ideas:
9 > 1) using special USEflags for that (which I can draft if you like),
10 > 2) copying DEPENDENCIES syntax from exherbo. I guess there's nothing
11 > special to draft here, only to decide on how much to copy.
12 >
13 > First gives you compat and handles all the cases, second one either
14 > doesn't handle everything or forces a completely new syntax.
15
16 I think I prefer the second option (copying from Exherbo). A better
17 integration with the package manager than USE flags should result in a
18 better user experience.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>