From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C68138010 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AC7CE06C1; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D19E050C for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BAA4033D7CF for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5041419E.50408@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:58:38 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120802 Thunderbird/14.0 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] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5? References: <50411874.4060204@gentoo.org> <20120831214611.088b3f50@googlemail.com> <5041288A.6030802@gentoo.org> <50413399.4030000@gentoo.org> <20120831231552.50fa67fa@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120831231552.50fa67fa@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a1d623c5-921a-4ee8-8059-344b711cf593 X-Archives-Hash: 6981658d6b325b133da120984ee2b005 On 08/31/2012 03:15 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:58:49 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: >> For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the >> "runtime-switchable USE flags" proposal: >> >> https://gist.github.com/2945569 > > Do we have an implementation of this yet? I have extreme doubts about > the viability of the idea... No, but there's a request here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424283 -- Thanks, Zac