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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: axs@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:18:04
Message-Id: 20120911021617.GE8036@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 04:14:17PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > Is there anything in particular in the spec/proposal for DEPENDENCIES
3 > that would exclude the addition of individual "build: app-cat/myatom"
4 > "run: app-cat/myatom" deps by an eclass or eclasses? I know the
5 > "goal" here is to make things atom-centric, but I can't see an
6 > implementation ever working of this that wouldn't permit the "pile-on"
7 > of additional entries of different (or even the same) roles on
8 > identical or near-identical atoms.
9
10 They could be piled on; it would require each eclass to reset the
11 label for safety reasons though; same goes for ebuilds frankly (or the
12 PM would have to reset the context to build+run: each time through).
13
14 Pardon if addressed elsewhere; this thread is a fucking mess...
15 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>