On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:40:27 +0200 Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Would it be possible to add support for ODEPEND (as in "optional" > dependencies -- I don't really care about the variable name) as well? > This would be quite beneficial under certain circumstances. One of > these is when ebuilds are shipped with PDEPENDs which are not required > at runtime nor for cycle-breaking... This is what we call "suggestions" and SDEPEND. There are already two proposals for dealing with this general issue. -- Ciaran McCreesh