Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] Optional runtime dependencies via runtime-switchable USE flags

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:41:23 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:42:36 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > You just volunteered to write portage patches. Cheers.
> > > 
> > > Both were already implemented in Paludis, if you're looking for a
> > > reference implementation to try it out. There are also examples of
> > > use of SDEPEND in the old kdebuilds, and of DEPENDENCIES in
> > > Exherbo. I can give you a small patch to turn SDEPEND on for an
> > > EAPI if you like (it's just a one line addition to the EAPI
> > > definition file).
> > 
> > Wait, did I just write to exherbo ml? No, don't think so.
> > 'Implemented in Paludis' doesn't work here. We're discussing Gentoo
> > features, and official package manager in Gentoo is portage. If you
> > don't believe me, check out the docs.
> 
> And since when was "Implemented in Portage" a requirement for an EAPI
> feature?

Remember EAPI4 and features which had reference implementation not
in portage?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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