Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
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> On 07/09/12 12:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:46:41 -0300 Alexis Ballier
>> <aballier@g.o> wrote:
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>>> I actually do like the concept but I'm not sure we can reach
>>> consensus about '*DEPEND vs DEPENDENCIES'; a possibility to get
>>> people used to it could be to have two parallel EAPIs, like 6 and
>>> 6-dependencies, where the former will keep the old style and the
>>> latter use DEPENDENCIES.
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>> With eclasses supporting both of them? That's more than crazy.
>>
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> By the time EAPI=6* would happen we should have a git tree so we'd
> just fork the tree for EAPI=6-dependencies.  :)
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> A change like this would *NEED* a long-term test phase with a lot of
> developer participation, so if we were to consider it we'd need to
> fork the tree and implement/maintain it in parallel to main tree
> maintenance, imo.  A translation script could probably also be used to
> convert *DEPEND into DEPENDENCIES automatically for any packages that
> dev's aren't manually managing...
>
> ...But I digress; we're nowhere near doing this yet.

An intermediate form of that might be useful for auditing the tree and
finding packages which aren't expressing, e.g. RDEPENDS, but probably
should.

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