Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] making autotools.eclass depends flexible

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/07/2010 07:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:11:15 Petteri Räty wrote:
>> On 03/05/2010 08:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> sometimes i have optional patches (ignoring the "patches should always be
>>> applied") where autotools should be run.  always inheriting autotools is
>>> currently annoying because it always adds the related dependencies.  USE
>>> based inherits are obviously out.
>>>
>>> so unless there's some burgeoning standard i'm not aware of, below is
>>> what i have in mind.  packages set AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND to "no" before
>>> inheriting autotools.eclass and that allows them to put
>>> ${AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND} behind a USE flag in their own DEPEND string.
>>
>> What we use in Java is JAVA_PKG_OPT_USE to declare what use flag the
>> DEPENDs should be under. This approach doesn't allow the ebuild
>> maintainer to forget adding the depends.
> 
> i'm more inclined towards Jonathan's opinion, so ive kept the proposed 
> behavior (plus a fix from Torsten).
> -mike

And what about my latest response to him?

Regards,
Petteri


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