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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:00:42 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> >> pkg_pretend() { |
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> >> if use qt4; then |
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> >> required_use -qt5 |
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> >> else |
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> >> required_use qt5 |
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> >> fi |
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> >> } |
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> > And how would the PM understand that -qt5 is conditional upon qt4? |
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> > Such knowledge is required if it's supposed to auto-resolve stuff... |
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> Right, the above was too simple (and wrong). It should have been: |
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> pkg_pretend() { |
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> use qt4 && use qt5 && required_use -qt5 |
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> use qt4 || use qt5 || required_use qt4 |
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> } |
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what is the difference ? |
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pkg_pretend still needs to be executed to guess what useflags are |
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enabled or not, which information is needed before dependency |
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calculation |
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or are we talking about moving pkg_pretend into dependency calculation? |
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