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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:16:03 +0200 |
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"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 10/10/07, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I think it's OK to start using package.use now considering that |
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> > package.use has been supported since portage-2.1.2 and that's been |
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> > stable since February. There are already a couple of packages using |
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> > it in the tree now. |
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> Is it a good idea for those ebuilds that require new features to have |
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> a >= dependency on a specific version of portage ? Or not ? |
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No, as it wouldn't help anyway: the depgraph is calculated before |
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portage would be updated (so package.use/IUSE defaults wouldn't be |
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used). |
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See http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/treedeps.txt for some |
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information on this kind of issues (while the text wasn't written with |
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this issue in mind it still applies to it). |
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Marius |
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