From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QNFUI-0004Vc-49 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 02:30:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F25961C02D; Fri, 20 May 2011 02:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C3A1C003 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 02:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi20 with SMTP id 20so2038566pxi.13 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:30:09 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.142.2.12 with SMTP id 12mr1048759wfb.20.1305858609245; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.143.168.13 with HTTP; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:30:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110519095017.A37641C013@pigeon.gentoo.org> References: <3492806.SC9FXRJr6n@jonathan-laptop> <19924.49067.318264.52433@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20110519095017.A37641C013@pigeon.gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:30:09 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: MFt3KrJ_3rAQich6W-W72qvgLCg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removal of kdeprefix news item From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bca1b854706a22bf3d6c889b4772e70e On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2011, Jonathan Callen wrote: >> >>> Display-If-Installed: kde-base/kdelibs[kdeprefix] >> >> I don't think that USE dependencies (or any other EAPI specific >> features) are allowed here. > > The GLEP does not make any meantion as to whether it is legal to use > USE dependencies here. =C2=A0I have, however, tested with portage and > portage itself Does The Right Thing when faced with a USE dep in > Display-If-Installed. reading the code for the version of portage I have installed: The NewsManager will call Isvalid on each news item and each news item will scan its restrictions for 'valid-ness' and report that upward. So if we are lucky, on old versions of portage, portage.isvalidatom will report the USE-dep as an invalid atom and portage will print mean errors messages about 'invalid news items' but will not throw up (in theory). > >>> run: emerge --oneshot $(qlist -IC kde-base/) >> >> Is it guaranteed that your users have portage-utils installed? >> Otherwise the qlist command may not be available. >> > > I had thought that we depended on this, but I was mistaken (the > dependency was pulled in via pambase). =C2=A0I guess we could just use > `emerge --update --deep --newuse @world` (and yes, @world is available > in stable portage). > > -- > Jonathan Callen > >