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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:18:17 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I think I prefer the second option (copying from Exherbo). A better |
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> > integration with the package manager than USE flags should result |
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> > in a better user experience. |
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> Are you willing to update and EAPI-bump all the eclasses? May I remind |
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> you that most of them don't even go beyond EAPI 0? |
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Most of them shouldn't need to care about EAPI at all. For those that |
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do, the only changes that should be necessary for an Exherbo-like |
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SDEPEND solution are for packages that actually want to use it... |
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If you also want to switch from *DEPEND to DEPENDENCIES (which would |
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also allow a whole bunch of other long standing feature requests to be |
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fulfilled) then it's still only slightly more work -- but last time I |
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asked, adding new dependency classes or switching dependency syntax was |
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in the "too tricky to do in Portage" boat. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |