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 4432F138010 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2E6A21C00C; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f181.google.com (mail-vc0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F96E00B2 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vchn11 with SMTP id n11so5307900vch.40 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:48:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=N5MyWxkZWdT4/2Esamw+XYX07JufHJl1yba2r7FQVAg=; b=E9bvrSZtGVwSWsmMumenigoP4SMo/ymQn2o1xxoRKgglmWEegbrgMmDVOa3IxBxbJv cwnFZYYyNjUk5RV5dd6Itskoyon8E7iQ86kSbS6O+SnGq94/gljAJwK1w17qEFSYrinO GZekCaw5eNIynj+UgvQatQvZLE0LO+CXBHSV8vTrCK5fRiRSJzclcbWjH5z7Ni1XyafK prU1hJSORzbWQKdQM8ZOb4X01twEiO0bd5wOFKoLAxB+kTP8IjDmLzAboWqYCxPLGaRB 3PIxv7p976Fntu4VzI4B48Cf7LoMeEOsys8IAJt9fEHibOxlqs/L8op/6TxsVH2hC6Sb aKTg== 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 10.221.11.71 with SMTP id pd7mr7490997vcb.45.1347889687163; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: yngwin@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.58.110 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:48:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120917134149.0bc8ab72@googlemail.com> References: <20120916135211.GC23030@localhost> <20120917030821.GA15027@localhost> <20120917134149.0bc8ab72@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:48:07 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qqvk_LTXtPbF-MteKl5BJ2MyQrk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: fb354313-e7d5-4f3b-ac9f-23cde6978086 X-Archives-Hash: 91395c3db8490a8c2f99761487542122 On 17 September 2012 20:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:49:12 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> Or, even easier and more straightforward: just keep using *DEPEND. The >> case hasn't been made yet why we need to change that in the first >> place. > > We're looking at something like eight *DEPEND variables in EAPI 6, with > considerable overlap between them all. And like now, in the great majority of cases, only two or three will be used. The enormous cost of moving to a different system (or the folly of using two systems in parallel) is not worth the slight benefit of a more cosmetic handling of the few cases where a few more *DEPEND variables would be needed and/or there is some overlap to be dealt with. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin