Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

[Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:
<snip>
>>
>>Big picture here:
>>* BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to
>>* in the future it will make other things possible
>>* give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that 
>>portage doesn't handle it right now... I think out of anyone, he knows what 
>>portage does and doesn't handle
>>
> 
> 
> I did ask Brian in another reply how he thought to implement it.
> 
> This one however I read as Drake saying/asking that we should start
> doing it now, and I tried to explain why we could not up until now, and
> still cannot.   Correct me if I interpreted it wrongly.
> 
> 

I don't know why we can't start now if we want. BDEPEND will be silently
ignored, so current versions of portage will just be blissfully ignorant.

Am I missing something?

Some of us think we can't start now, others think we can. I was under the
impression from ferringb that we could.

--Iggy
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