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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: oasis.eclass for oasis-based ocaml packages.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:33:08
Message-Id: 4F6CA585.3010103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: oasis.eclass for oasis-based ocaml packages. by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On 23/03/12 12:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:14:39 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius
6 > <axs@g.o> wrote:
7 >> I don't know if I follow this one or not. When inheriting an
8 >> eclass, all entities within the eclass get merged into the
9 >> ebuild. As long as there aren't any special conditional tricks
10 >> being used to assign to global variables like IUSE, it would
11 >> still be invariant wouldn't it?
12 >
13 > The point is that the merging might be done inside the package
14 > manager (not in bash code) on the IUSE metadata variable, and the
15 > changes don't have to be reflected in the IUSE environment variable
16 > inside the ebuild.
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18 If that was the case, then eclasses could no longer append deps to
19 (R)DEPEND, either .....?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: oasis.eclass for oasis-based ocaml packages. Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: oasis.eclass for oasis-based ocaml packages. Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>