On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:59 -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> <snip>
> >>
> >>Big picture here:
> >>* BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to
> >>* in the future it will make other things possible
> >>* give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that 
> >>portage doesn't handle it right now... I think out of anyone, he knows what 
> >>portage does and doesn't handle
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I did ask Brian in another reply how he thought to implement it.
> > 
> > This one however I read as Drake saying/asking that we should start
> > doing it now, and I tried to explain why we could not up until now, and
> > still cannot.   Correct me if I interpreted it wrongly.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I don't know why we can't start now if we want. BDEPEND will be silently
> ignored, so current versions of portage will just be blissfully ignorant.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 

Yeah, I thought Drake was talking about DEPEND (that was at least what
he said), not BDEPEND.

> Some of us think we can't start now, others think we can. I was under the
> impression from ferringb that we could.
> 

BDEPEND should be fine to start now depending on faith.


-- 
Martin