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On 02/22/2010 10:46 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> So I've started to see the proliferation of manual || structures for USE deps, |
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> where virtuals would normally be used, but it seems that either USE deps from |
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> the virtuals aren't propogated down to the packages themselves, or developers |
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> aren't aware of said propagation. |
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> |
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> DEPEND="... |
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> || ( |
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> >=dev-db/mysql-5.0.76-r1[embedded?,-minimal] |
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> >=dev-db/mysql-community-5.0.77-r1[embedded?,-minimal] |
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> ) |
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> ..." |
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> |
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> dev-db/mysql-community will be dropped later this year, however before then |
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> there will be 3 other variants added, all of which need to go into |
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> virtual/mysql: |
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> dev-db/mysql-cluster |
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> dev-db/mariadb |
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> dev-db/mysql-ourdelta |
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> |
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> Suggestions on the actual problem source, and potential solutions welcome? |
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There was a bug in <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 (fixed in svn r14281) |
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which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set |
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EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not |
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encounter the bug. |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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