From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:44:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B858FAA.9040407@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224184953.42e991c3@snowmobile>
On 02/24/2010 10:49 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:37 -0800
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> There was a bug in <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 (fixed in svn r14281)
>> which prevented propagation of USE deps in virtuals. If you set
>> EAPI=3 in the ebuilds then that will ensure that users will not
>> encounter the bug.
>
> Wait, what? If you mean old-style virtuals, the position has always
> been that it's illegal to dep upon them in any way other than a simple
> virtual/foo with no operators. If you mean new-style virtuals, then
> they should be taking care of propagating any relevant use dependencies
> themselves.
The portage bug that I referred to was with new-style virtuals. It
was due to complications in the code related to this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141118
Due to that code, with <sys-apps/portage-2.1.7 you could get some
strange results with USE deps inside new-style virtuals. Nobody ever
reported a bug though, so maybe it's not very noticeable.
--
Thanks,
Zac
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 18:46 [gentoo-dev] upcoming problem? new-style virtuals and USE deps Robin H. Johnson
2010-02-22 21:06 ` Zac Medico
2010-02-24 18:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-02-24 20:44 ` Zac Medico [this message]
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