From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnszu-0004Tc-VE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:11:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC516E0391; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out1.libero.it (smtp-out1.libero.it [212.52.84.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EEFE0391 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from MailRelay10.libero.it (192.168.32.119) by smtp-out1.libero.it (7.3.120) id 47C416BE03E6F539 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:11:40 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgoBAE4FDEiXORMy/2dsb2JhbAAIqhU Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.57.19.50]) by outrelay-b10.libero.it with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 12:11:36 +0200 Message-ID: <480C682D.8020200@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:10:53 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst References: <20080419053116.50e0ffe6@snowcone> <20080419044512.GD29470@supernova> <20080419055420.29ab56e1@snowcone> <20080419052720.GE29470@supernova> <20080419063300.6d2a2525@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20080419063300.6d2a2525@snowcone> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71e3a7bd-8510-4427-b462-70ffbc8a4e45 X-Archives-Hash: acf7229a4a2ac9f8f8dcb8634101c386 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Really, it seems to be an additional type of dependency that neither >> DEPEND or RDEPEND fully describe, and this DEPEND+RDEPEND idea isn't >> quite capturing it either. > > Yup, and for future EAPIs labels can fix this. But we have to have a > sound solution for current EAPIs. Usually I rather see the specific problem before looking for solutions. If packages intertwine in strange ways _maybe_ we could work with upstream to fix the insanity at the source instead host it ourselves. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list