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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:45:50
Message-Id: 20566.499.79901.262780@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal by Alex Alexander
1 >>>>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Alex Alexander wrote:
2
3 > Am I the only one who thinks that this dep:{build,...} thing looks
4 > really ugly and is hard to read?
5
6 +1
7
8 > IMO simply removing the "dep" part would greatly improve things:
9
10 > DEPENDENCIES="
11 > :build,run? ( ... )
12 > :run? ( ... )
13 > "
14
15 IMHO it would improve readability even more if we would stay with our
16 traditional *DEPEND variables. In any case, package managers will have
17 to support them indefinitely for existing EAPIs.
18
19 Ulrich