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On 09/18/2012 12:29 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:25:57 -0700 |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Also, if we change the meaning of RDEPEND in the next EAPI, so that |
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>> it's a hard build-time dep like DEPEND, then DEPEND="${RDEPEND} |
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>> virtual/pkgconfig" can be reduced to DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig". This |
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>> is what I would like to do for the experimental EAPI 5-hdepend which |
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>> is planned [1]. |
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> |
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> What're we going to do about the zillions of unsolvable cycles that |
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> that would create? (Does Portage detect those and error out yet?) |
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Yeah, it would be treated just like a DEPEND cycle, which is already |
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detected and treated as a fatal error. As a result, when bumping the |
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EAPI of an ebuild, you may have to migrate some deps from RDEPEND to |
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PDEPEND in order to solve the cycles. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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