Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org>]

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2010-01-10 21:56:01 Fabian Groffen napisał(a):
> On 10-01-2010 09:29:28 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> > I would like to suggest introduction of support for PYTHON_DEPEND variable, which
> > would be a better replacement for NEED_PYTHON variable. NEED_PYTHON variable
> > does not allow to specify that e.g. only versions of Python 2 are accepted.
> > (Eventually PYTHON_DEPEND variable will have to be set only in ebuilds of packages
> > not supporting installation for multiple versions of Python.)
> 
> Can you explain the intended use of this variable, and why normal DEPEND
> is not sufficient?

PYTHON_DEPEND is intented to simplify specification of dependency on Python.

PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5" is shorter than:
DEPEND="|| ( =dev-lang/python-2.7* =dev-lang/python-2.6* =dev-lang/python-2.5* )"

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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