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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-2.0.51_pre10: QA Notice Messages
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:12:46
Message-Id: 200406111512.34578.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-2.0.51_pre10: QA Notice Messages by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Friday 11 June 2004 02:17 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > > IUSE isnt defined when portage hits that (it is defined later on) so you
3 > > get the warning message ... portage needs a way to handle conditional
4 > > inherits, so you cant really say the eclass/ebuild is broken
5 >
6 > No it doesn't, those eclasses / ebuilds need to be written in such that
7 > there is no need for a conditional use of them.
8
9 what about packages that optional perl modules ? or optional python modules ?
10 do you propose we duplicate the eclass code in those ebuilds ?
11 pulling in those eclasses pulls in the DEPEND on perl/python which may not be
12 correct if USE="-perl -python" ...
13 -mike
14
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Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-2.0.51_pre10: QA Notice Messages Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>