From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:49:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100224184953.42e991c3@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B82F1DD.7050201@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:37 -0800
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> There was a bug in <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 (fixed in svn r14281)
> which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set
> EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not
> encounter the bug.
Wait, what? If you mean old-style virtuals, the position has always
been that it's illegal to dep upon them in any way other than a simple
virtual/foo with no operators. If you mean new-style virtuals, then
they should be taking care of propagating any relevant use dependencies
themselves.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 18:46 [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps Robin H. Johnson
2010-02-22 21:06 ` Zac Medico
2010-02-24 18:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-02-24 20:44 ` Zac Medico
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