Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:47:11
Message-Id: 51A622CD.4070101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA256
3
4 On 29/05/13 11:43 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
5 > I think, it'll be nice to have a way to suggest some packages to
6 > user, when (s)he installs something. For now it is only way to do
7 > that by something like:
8 >
9 > pkg_postinst() { if ! has_version dev-lua/iluajit; then einfo
10 > "You'd probably want to install dev-lua/iluajit to"; ewarn "get
11 > fully functional interactive shell for LuaJIT"; fi if has_version
12 > app-editors/emacs || has_version app-editors/xemacs; then einfo
13 > "You'd probably want to install app-emacs/lua-mode to"; ewarn "get
14 > Lua completion in emacs."; fi }
15 >
16 > but some people find that way annoying and some devs also thinks it
17 > is bad way. Another way (use USEflags-related PDEPs — is a bad way
18 > too).
19 >
20 > Any thoughts? :)
21 >
22
23
24 There are many thoughts, iirc there was at least one 100+ long thread
25 in august/september 2012. Search for "SDEPEND" and "IUSE_RUNTIME" in
26 the mailing list logs.
27
28 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
29 Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)
30
31 iF4EAREIAAYFAlGmIs0ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCzcQD/bANxbOhGaxwNhdXJ7Nxhw3Ld
32 yZr96dhlKwfp6I1D2pIA+gPO0eYRGo4FDkbMQ1z72lawQgufTKbXpHwobjCTUVlb
33 =c6wc
34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>