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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] implicit RDEPEND
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:28:46
Message-Id: 200608051826.02842.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass and binary packages by Zac Medico
1 On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:29, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > I'm not satisfied with the current implicit RDEPEND behavior either. I
3 > propose that we make repoman force explicit definition of RDEPEND.
4
5 and i'm on the opposite side where implicit RDEPEND should be clean:
6 - eclass and ebuilds have their own sets of DEPEND/RDEPEND which do not in any
7 way affect each other
8 - RDEPEND, if not set, is defined as $DEPEND
9
10 > After
11 > all of the ebuilds have been fixed to stop relying on the implicit
12 > definition, we can fix portage so that it no longer sets RDEPEND implicitly
13 > at all.
14
15 i see it being broken regardless, might as well go for a clean break rather
16 than putzing around with middle ground
17 -mike

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit RDEPEND Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit RDEPEND Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>