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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: phajdan.jr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:17:41
Message-Id: 20110802201817.73a5e0a5@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:58:56 -0700
2 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 8/2/11 12:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:19:03 -0700
6 > > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
7 > >> I'm interested in some sort of suggested/recommend deps for
8 > >> www-client/chromium, but I'm not sure if eclass is the right
9 > >> implementation.
10 > > I don't think we can start drafting until we agree on one solution.
11 > > AFAICS there are two major ideas:
12 > > 1) using special USEflags for that (which I can draft if you like),
13 > > 2) copying DEPENDENCIES syntax from exherbo. I guess there's nothing
14 > > special to draft here, only to decide on how much to copy.
15 > >
16 > > First gives you compat and handles all the cases, second one either
17 > > doesn't handle everything or forces a completely new syntax.
18 >
19 > I think I prefer the second option (copying from Exherbo). A better
20 > integration with the package manager than USE flags should result in a
21 > better user experience.
22
23 Are you willing to update and EAPI-bump all the eclasses? May I remind
24 you that most of them don't even go beyond EAPI 0?
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny

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