[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

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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? :)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage

[Ian Stakenvicius]

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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.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage

[Pacho Ramos]

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)