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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new depend atom?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:37:31
Message-Id: 20041129143822.655916cb@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] new depend atom? by Simon Stelling
1 On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:19:24 +0100
2 Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > so what about a new depend atom? i think such a line would be nice:
5 >
6 > DEPEND="dev-php/php domxml"
7 >
8 > if we used such a depend atom, we'd need less user interaction and no
9 > einfo-workarounds, it'd be a proper way.
10 >
11 > the problem of course is that portage has to know which use flags
12 > every package was built with and that the new depend atom possibly
13 > breaks backwards compatibilty. perhaps that could be in the same
14 > release as the solution for the MD5 issue?
15
16 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272
17
18 Marius
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