Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

[justin]

Hi,

after testing this, and I have to say it mostly works smooth and fine, I
hit a huge problem.

I wanted to emerge a package which just depends on glibc provided libs
for the oposite ABI my main ABI is. This specific package has an
optional support for python which would require to have a second python
installation, so I disabled it. Nevertheless the package inherits the
python.eclass which DEPENDS on eselect-python, which DEPENDS on python.
Resulting in the need of a two ABI python installation although I don't
want python support.

To solve this there are two options:

1. Eclasses shouldn't be allowed to depend unconditionally on packages.
In case of python where there is PYTHON_DEPEND="python? X" it should be
doable.
2. USE dependend inherit of eclasses


justin