Re: [gentoo-dev] portage without portage

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>]

Nick Jones wrote:
>>I think I'll just stick with what I know. For now, I'm just doing 'emerge 
>>info | grep USE' to get a complete list of USE flags. As for the DEPEND 
>>line, I'm using a regex to extract each item, although its not going too 
>>well.
> 
> You can't do it that way. Portage does a lot of calculations based on
> things like virtuals, inherited-values, and eclasses. USE flags also
> have the potential to change during dep calculation due to binary
> package restrictions and eventually USE requirements as well.
> 
> The way you're getting USE is ok for single packages.
> 
> The DEPEND info isn't right. DEPEND, RDEPEND, and PDEPEND all can vary
> inside of an eclass, and depending upon if they are unset, empty, or
> set, they can affect the final output.

I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear any of that :) Something I'm curious about: what 
is the difference between the different *DEPEND lines?

-- 
Andrew Gaffney


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