From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5wDh-0000sz-6d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:02:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7J228cB011645; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:02:08 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7J1xQhT025916 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:59:26 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E5wAM-0001jM-J3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:59:30 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:59:00 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs Message-ID: <20050819015900.GG19947@nightcrawler> References: <200508181628.44059.trapni@gentoo.org> <200508181040.46106.vapier@gentoo.org> <4304A59D.8050901@gentoo.org> <1124379426.21223.155.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20050818155606.GB19947@nightcrawler> <20050818182403.4291726c@snowdrop.home> <20050818181355.GF19947@nightcrawler> <20050819010635.04687d6b@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kadn00tgSopKmJ1H" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050819010635.04687d6b@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 1b14f334-4446-415c-b771-869ddab34a42 X-Archives-Hash: b1a6ca992e394acd9960b7ca74887aef --kadn00tgSopKmJ1H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:56 -0500 Brian Harring > wrote: > | You're a bit vague in the 'die in pkg_setup' bit; if you're=20 > | referencing doing the changes now, and sticking a die in, I already =20 > | explicitly stated the responsible party would need a wedgie if it was= =20 > | done; the "lets check for use flags on our deps in pkg_setup" is evil= =20 > | as hell, and *only* should be used when absolutely explicitly > | required. iow, wait for use deps unless you've got some damn good > | reason to fall back to the kludge while waiting. >=20 > For how many years have we been waiting for USE deps? I'd say that this > discussion is pretty much pointless. In the distant future when we do > get USE deps we'll no doubt have a whole different set of issues to > figure out. USE deps have been sitting in core rewrite's cvs since monday. ~harring --kadn00tgSopKmJ1H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDBTzkvdBxRoA3VU0RAjSHAJ4uC19hZV1eyZ3emZI0GTjpHFBIbACgwW0D 2geqLl2hORrfDY5Uz7jTCls= =O/li -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kadn00tgSopKmJ1H-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list