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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Sometimes a package has to depend on a specific version of a slotted package being the "active" one to build correctly, like in the current "tr1" discussion on -dev [1] or with packages that depend on the running kernel. |
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> Currently this isn't really possible, however I while ago I got an idea how to solve this. Keep in mind this is just a rough idea and I'm pretty sure some people can/will point out why it is a stupid idea, but anyway: |
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> The idea is to add a special category (let's call it "active" for now) that has the following properties: |
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> - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) |
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> - when portage ($pkgmanager) encounters a "active/foo" atom in a dependency string it executes some special code (e.g. "$PORTDIR/scripts/active-check/foo =active/foo-1") to determine if that atom is satisfied |
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> (and yes, this kinda goes with multi-repo/multi-format support) |
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> Marius |
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I don't see why how this is any less complicated than just adding more |
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functionality to || deps (runtime versus compile time) |
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