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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:02:21
Message-Id: 20120917145853.33db671d@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal by Ben de Groot
1 On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:48:07 +0800
2 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 17 September 2012 20:41, Ciaran McCreesh
4 > <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:49:12 +0800
6 > > Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
7 > >> Or, even easier and more straightforward: just keep using *DEPEND.
8 > >> The case hasn't been made yet why we need to change that in the
9 > >> first place.
10 > >
11 > > We're looking at something like eight *DEPEND variables in EAPI 6,
12 > > with considerable overlap between them all.
13 >
14 > And like now, in the great majority of cases, only two or three will
15 > be used.
16
17 And even now, people are using COMMON_DEPEND to work around *DEPEND
18 duplication.
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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