From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpzFG-0003zy-VT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:02:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6620U2N016328; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 02:00:30 GMT Received: from mail.polybottom.org (polybottom.org [66.220.1.110]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j661wYlc010125 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:58:34 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([::ffff:209.169.98.203]) (AUTH: LOGIN brian@brianandsara.net, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mail.polybottom.org with esmtp; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:59:20 -0500 id 0000DC94.42CB3AF8.000069BF Message-ID: <42CB3AF5.4080004@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:59:17 -0500 From: Brian Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050509) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends References: <20050701162524.GB11634@exodus.wit.org> <200507011349.19312.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050701225900.GA8904@phaenix.haell.com> <1120560487.8314.35.camel@lycan.lan> <42CB151E.1000802@gentoo.org> <1120614402.8314.87.camel@lycan.lan> In-Reply-To: <1120614402.8314.87.camel@lycan.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 010b0d73-3d66-4518-8c22-639c4997688d X-Archives-Hash: b844cea92fd8e83b18a2107970076e8d Martin Schlemmer wrote: >> >>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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list