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 4.50) id 1EUHAY-0000Kl-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:16:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9P5FYei025278; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:15:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9P5DdL5026732 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:13:40 GMT Received: from s01060050bab40e5b.ed.shawcable.net ([68.148.132.114] helo=[192.168.0.220]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EUH7z-0001xJ-Gm for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:13:39 +0000 Message-ID: <435DBECC.2050908@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:12:44 -0600 From: Joshua Baergen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051014) 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] Reminder on dependencies. References: <1130199485.1413.3.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> <435DB66F.9060807@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <435DB66F.9060807@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 082071d9-683f-43be-9c22-e5c38deeb5e8 X-Archives-Hash: ae4593d3a20271834945281b9ec8dc95 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > - - Packages requiring the headers have to DEPEND on them directly, > because DEPENDs don't cascade. (Although this brings to mind the concept > of some sort of cascadable DEPEND.) I remember some sort of BDEPEND idea being proposed awhile back, but that was for something different I believe. I wouldn't mind the ability to say that DEPENDing on x at build-time requires y during the build process, especially if more packages follow X's header structure. -- Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list