Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:53:37
Message-Id: 20120831225001.37516cf6@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5? by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:40:27 +0200
2 Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
3 > Would it be possible to add support for ODEPEND (as in "optional"
4 > dependencies -- I don't really care about the variable name) as well?
5 > This would be quite beneficial under certain circumstances. One of
6 > these is when ebuilds are shipped with PDEPENDs which are not required
7 > at runtime nor for cycle-breaking...
8
9 This is what we call "suggestions" and SDEPEND. There are already two
10 proposals for dealing with this general issue.
11
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13 Ciaran McCreesh

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