On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 01:20, Alexander Futasz wrote:
> > * if ebuild forces -fPIC flag to CFLAGS.
> > * if ebuild appends $RDEPEND or $DEPEND to $RDEPEND or $DEPEND to
> >   $DEPEND.
> > * if ebuild overrides MAKEOPTS.
> 
> Why is this bad (specifically appending $DEPEND to $RDEPEND)?

-fPIC should be applied by patching the Makefile and the fix sent
upstream.

Don't override MAKEOPTS.  Simply call 'emake <whatever you want>'.

As for the DEPEND thing... I dunno... the description makes it seem likt
this is invalid:

DEPEND="stuff needed for runtime and compile time"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND} stuff needed just for runtime"
DEPEND="${DEPEND} stuff needed just for compile time"

but that's the way to do it, IMO.

> > * if ebuild has deprecated WANT_AUTO(CONF|MAKE)_?_?.
> 
> What is the prefered way to do this then?

WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7
WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5

or whatever version you want...

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