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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:29:43
Message-Id: 462CFA76.6080307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ? by Lars Weiler
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4 Lars Weiler wrote:
5 > Your proposal looks like a quick fix for a feature portage
6 > can't handle yet. But your attached list of packages which
7 > already use that behaviour is already quite long and so you
8 > better should convince the portage-devs to include
9 > built-use-flags into the dependency calculation.
10
11 I'm currently designing a new dependency resolver and support for
12 USE deps [1] is one of the features that it will include. I hope to
13 have something usable within the next 1 or 2 months.
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15 >
16 > Regards, Lars
17 >
18 > PS: I should add the disclaimer, that I did not ask any of
19 > the portage devs before I wrote these lines. I only checked
20 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml#doc_chap8
21 > and could not find that this feature is already in
22 > development.
23
24 Now I've added "New dependency resolver" to the list of tasks there,
25 along with references to bugs 144480 [2] and 155723 [3] which track
26 many of the issues that it will solve.
27
28 Zac
29
30 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272
31 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144480
32 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155723
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