Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

[Tiziano Müller]

Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2009, 12:05 +0100 schrieb Arfrever Frehtes
Taifersar Arahesis:
> 2009-03-08 10:43:44 Tiziano Müller napisał(a):
> > Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2009, 00:08 -0800 schrieb Josh Saddler:
> > > Tiziano Müller wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone
> > > >
> > > > With eapis 1 and 2 we introduced nice features but also a couple of new
> > > > problems. One of them are the use dependencies when the package you
> > > > depend on doesn't have the use flag anymore (see [1] for an example).
> > > >
> > > > So I think it's time for a short eapi bump with some distinct
> > > > improvements:
> > > >
> > > > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pPAJXP6shYH78lCXeqRqCUQ
> > >
> > > Is there a reason why we should ram through a new EAPI for something
> > > that *looks* like another "Paludis supports this so let's make it a
> > > Portage standard" proposal?
> > Ok, first it's not about paludis,portage,pkgcore,whatever but about the
> > ebuild-format. Paludis also fails if you have DEPEND="cat/foo[moo]" in
> > bar-0.1.ebuild but cat/foo doesn't have a "moo" USE flag.
> >
> > So, please let's focus on the problems we have and try to find a
> > solution. Please fill in the blanks in the table if you know how portage
> > has it implemented.
> >
> > And I used the word "fast" because people start to use use-dependencies
> > on a larger scale leading to more problems like the one I described in
> > the example. In fact, you could already say that for git the dep-tree is
> > broken because newer subversion doesn't carry the "dso" USE flag
> > anymore.
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.5.ebuild?view=markup
> contains:
> IUSE="apache2 berkdb debug doc +dso emacs extras java nls perl python ruby sasl vim-syntax +webdav-neon webdav-serf"
>                                 ^^^
True, but subversion-1.4* doesn't. Anyway, it was meant as an example...