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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:17:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369862248.9228.11.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A622CD.4070101@gentoo.org>

El mié, 29-05-2013 a las 11:46 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió:
> On 29/05/13 11:43 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> > I think, it'll be nice to have a way to suggest some packages to
> > user, when (s)he installs something. For now it is only way to do
> > that by something like:
> > 
> > pkg_postinst() { if ! has_version dev-lua/iluajit; then einfo
> > "You'd probably want to install dev-lua/iluajit to"; ewarn "get
> > fully functional interactive shell for LuaJIT"; fi if has_version
> > app-editors/emacs || has_version app-editors/xemacs; then einfo
> > "You'd probably want to install app-emacs/lua-mode to"; ewarn "get
> > Lua completion in emacs."; fi }
> > 
> > but some people find that way annoying and some devs also thinks it
> > is bad way. Another way (use USEflags-related PDEPs — is a bad way
> > too).
> > 
> > Any thoughts? :)
> > 
> 
> 
> There are many thoughts, iirc there was at least one 100+ long thread
> in august/september 2012.  Search for "SDEPEND" and "IUSE_RUNTIME" in
> the mailing list logs.
> 

Also:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373323
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453618

But I cannot remember what was finally blocking them (specially solution
pointed in second bug report)



      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29 15:43 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2013-05-29 15:46 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-29 21:17   ` Pacho Ramos [this message]

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