Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit RDEPEND

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:29, Zac Medico wrote:
>> I'm not satisfied with the current implicit RDEPEND behavior either.  I
>> propose that we make repoman force explicit definition of RDEPEND.
> 
> and i'm on the opposite side where implicit RDEPEND should be clean:
> - eclass and ebuilds have their own sets of DEPEND/RDEPEND which do not in any 
> way affect each other
> - RDEPEND, if not set, is defined as $DEPEND

That change is more difficult to do because your talking about changing the implicit behavior for all eclasses and all ebuilds.  It seems like it would require an EAPI bump if we want to ensure a smooth migration path that is free of wild fluctuations in RDEPEND.  If we take that step, we need to be absolutely sure that we *really* love having implicit RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" at all levels (for both eclasses and ebuilds).

Zac


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