Re: [gentoo-dev] Addressing GLEP-62 itself

[Zac Medico]

On 09/27/2012 12:53 PM, Brian Harring wrote:
> Bullshit.  This is optional in the sense of embrace/extend 'optional';
> if one PM takes up the new functionality, all have to switch to
> writing unfinalized deps to the VDB, and all have to switch to
> transfering that IUSE_RUNTIME crap to the VDB.

I think the proposal suddenly becomes a lot saner if it's done as an
EAPI extension, the optional runtime deps and IUSE_RUNTIME conditionals
are isolated in a new separate variable (perhaps SRDEPEND), and
IUSE_RUNTIME is not allowed to intersect with IUSE. Using a separate
SRDEPEND variable means that the package manager only has to preserve
USE conditionals in the vdb for that one variable.
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Thanks,
Zac