From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:50:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100111075030.GA452@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001110126.25811.Arfrever@gentoo.org>
On 11-01-2010 01:25:45 +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> > 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* )"
So if there is enough space to express the dependency with the current
syntax, is it worth introducing a new shorthand for it then?
Also for this example, why does 2:2.5 expand to 2.7, 2.6 and 2.5? I
would have expected 2.0 ... 2.5. Maybe the language isn't as intuitive
then as Sebastian pointed out.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-11 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-10 8:29 [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-10 18:41 ` Sebastian Pipping
2010-01-10 21:50 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 3:55 ` Sebastian Pipping
2010-01-11 8:47 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-12 3:20 ` Sebastian Pipping
2010-01-10 20:56 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-01-11 0:25 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 7:50 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2010-01-11 8:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-01-11 10:14 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-01-12 14:16 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 9:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 11:04 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-01-12 14:07 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2010-01-11 10:14 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-01-12 14:11 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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