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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:54:42 +0100 (CET) |
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Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> In any case, I think that this situation should be addressed, and |
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> perhaps a comment from PMS might help. |
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The PMS side is that we know that the current three DEPEND variables |
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are nowhere near enough, and there are proposals for fixing it |
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properly, but they're not things that are easy to implement in Portage, |
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so there's no timescale. |
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In the mean time, RDEPEND is the closest we have to a dependency saying |
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"if I'm used to satisfy a build dependency, then this must also be |
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installed". |
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Ciaran McCreesh |