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On 09/29/2012 02:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Following the late discussion, I have updated GLEP-62. It no longer is |
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> designed to be 'backwards compatible' and instead it was suited for |
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> addition in a new EAPI. |
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> Thus, IUSE_RUNTIME is now independent of IUSE, and runtime dependencies |
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> can be expressed in SDEPEND only. |
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Thanks, these changes make it much more manageable. Trying to do |
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something like this retroactively for existing EAPIs is just a mess. |
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> There's still a case of REQUIRED_USE. I'm not really convinced to |
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> create a REQUIRED_RUNTIME_USE especially for it. Also, it may be |
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> actually better to put all IUSE_RUNTIME flags to IUSE as well -- since |
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> the package manager will after all be required to concatenate them |
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> anyway. |
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Will runtime flags be able to interact with buildtime flags then? It |
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seems like it could be useful, so it we should probably allow it. Sure, |
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people could write some expressions that don't make sense, but that's |
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already the case with REQUIRED_USE. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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