From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0E11381F3 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D4B2E09C9; Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFBBBE09BA for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (201.Red-2-137-222.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [2.137.222.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89D3B33E168 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 21:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1369862248.9228.11.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Suggested packages option in portage From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:17:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <51A622CD.4070101@gentoo.org> References: <51A6222A.9090105@mva.name> <51A622CD.4070101@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.2 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 542f19b1-eeb1-41e9-8ba3-f459ff575dcc X-Archives-Hash: e8aa09df4162de669b12417efa5e0393 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)