Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:

> Using an extension like -rX.Y seems odd; at the very least, I think
> an incremental variable or something along that line in the ebuild
> would work better.

It would also account for changes in eclasses, which any scheme bound
to the ebuild's filename cannot do.

> This allows for array usage like VERSION[dependencies]=1, thus
> allowing other variables to be dynamic as well; you compare that
> number against the one in the vdb, bingo...

Taking this one step further, I wonder if one couldn't directly
compare *DEPEND in the ebuild against the one in the VDB. Why would
one need to introduce another variable?

Ulrich