From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9209F139694 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E49B21C07C; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 073A0E0CA1 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0DB573415A2 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual -- virtual/go to fix go build time dependencies To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170302001801.GA29649@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20170302105854.189f1f88@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <135e77dc-c443-8dd3-185b-71e743a4b700@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:03:21 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170302105854.189f1f88@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c4728eab-8732-45c2-859e-935e9e5ee91c X-Archives-Hash: 6c3bbc3c3d27819a8130dc1c68720f14 On 03/02/2017 04:58 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Is it really abusing ? > := deps in DEPEND only would also make sense for e.g. code generators > Slot operator dependencies are ignored in DEPEND: Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime dependencies, indicates that the package will break unless a matching package with slot and sub-slot equal to the slot and sub-slot of the best installed version at the time the package was built is available. In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND. That makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will break" rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's not an error to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy everyone doing DEPEND="${RDEPEND}".