Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42?

[Brian Jackson]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote:

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> Stuart Herbert wrote:
>> Whatever happened to the work to implement GLEP 42?  Is there anyone
>> actively working on this atm?
>
> It's been on my todo list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet due
> to other portage work that's kept me extremely busy.  I hope to get
> GLEP 42 implemented soon though.
>
> On the bright side, portage-2.1.2 [1] has made recent progress on
> quite a few important and long standing bugs.  Here are descriptions
> of some of the recent changes:
>
> * Profiles support multiple inheritance.
> * CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK both support files (not
> just directories).
> * Collision protection handles symlinks properly.
> * Dependencies can be satisfied by installed packages that do not
> have matching ebuilds in the portage tree or overlay.
> * Emerge automatically ignores blockers that are made irrelevant by
> an upgrade.
> * Emerge builds a complete dependency graph in order to ensure
> correct merge order and detection of circular dependencies.
> * The world and system sets allow automatic update of all installed
> slots.
> * DEPEND atoms support SLOT dependencies of the form
> ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:${SLOT}.

I thought we were eventually going to use that format to specify deps  
with specific USE set.

--Iggy

>
> Zac
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147007
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