Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: lxnay@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:01:02
Message-Id: 20120901005940.5a47f88b@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5? by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 00:18:07 +0200
2 Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > >
7 > > For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the
8 > > "runtime-switchable USE flags" proposal:
9 > >
10 > > https://gist.github.com/2945569
11 >
12 > runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It sounds
13 > like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
14 > I think SDEPEND is a much simpler approach to the issue, why
15 > introducing a new kind of USE flags to address what really belongs to
16 > *DEPEND?
17
18 Because otherwise you can't use USE flags. The rationale is there.
19
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature