Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:41:57 +0100
Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> Use PDEPEND.

PDEPEND has a different meaning, and isn't suitable for runtime
dependencies.

> While I like labels they need to be discussed more on-list as well as
> on bugzilla (it's not reasonable for you simply to advertise them and
> then close down discussion.) For instance, there is no reason
> everything has to be loaded into just one extant metadatum, not do
> they preclude new metadata (such as a SRC_DEP here.)

Labels can be discussed on-list whenever there's a chance in hell of
Portage implementing any non-trivial new features.

Anyway, I'm going with the second wording in the original email. It
seems fairly clear that most people aren't understanding the issue, and
are jumping in and offering opinions without having looked at the tree
(and no, I'm not going to give examples, because that'll just
degenerate into "oh, so we can change this one particular case to do
$blah", whilst missing the bigger point). Of everything suggested, only
the two original wordings are correct, and of those two, the second is
better defined.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh