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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:21:07
Message-Id: CAN3Atvq2a1b4e_kPURk-3ocAxfoQkmmVWwz5nY0oBoth+nL9iQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5? by Zac Medico
1 On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
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3 > For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the "runtime-switchable
4 > USE flags" proposal:
5 >
6 > https://gist.github.com/2945569
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8 runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It sounds
9 like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
10 I think SDEPEND is a much simpler approach to the issue, why
11 introducing a new kind of USE flags to address what really belongs to
12 *DEPEND?
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14 > --
15 > Thanks,
16 > Zac
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22 Fabio Erculiani

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