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On 02/24/2010 10:49 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:37 -0800 |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> There was a bug in <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 (fixed in svn r14281) |
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>> which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set |
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>> EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not |
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>> encounter the bug. |
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> Wait, what? If you mean old-style virtuals, the position has always |
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> been that it's illegal to dep upon them in any way other than a simple |
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> virtual/foo with no operators. If you mean new-style virtuals, then |
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> they should be taking care of propagating any relevant use dependencies |
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> themselves. |
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The portage bug that I referred to was with new-style virtuals. It |
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was due to complications in the code related to this bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141118 |
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Due to that code, with <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 you could get some |
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strange results with USE deps inside new-style virtuals. Nobody ever |
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reported a bug though, so maybe it's not very noticeable. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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