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From: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xdg.eclass: add EAPI 8 support
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:29:54
Message-Id: YPA4SoIzNTXXRAdL@eversor
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xdg.eclass: add EAPI 8 support by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 03:23:04PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > >>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
3 >
4 > > Old DEPEND should be kept as-is not to risk breaking packages with odd
5 > > checks that need it present at build time. I'd rather no RDEPEND switch
6 > > either as it'll just complicate things with revbumps and tools don't
7 > > really need to be in RDEPEND given the above.
8 >
9 > Well, if the challenge was to pick the _worst_ match out of
10 > {,B,R,I}DEPEND then DEPEND would be the correct answer. :)
11
12 Well, if really must improve it, I think BDEPEND is the better choice.
13
14 Some packages use desktop-file-validate for their tests and the like.
15
16 --
17 ionen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] xdg.eclass: add EAPI 8 support Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>