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 1A075138010 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33328E0509; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:12:55 +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 972DAE060F for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vchn11 with SMTP id n11so5345623vch.40 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:11:59 -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=wBm3psGu60M4w6zZC7imUnLr9CemKOBFlviOhHsA8vU=; b=QC2s21+rNRQpF6pjC8bejlNfwtoFDFIf9Nx1RhxIGbg54hm3vzJlb/QHByw2XYIULJ Ol5/v03TBwmv+fvem35tnCENZKZxufp4VQWVa9uW4Oo08aLmV0ZcNhEjBbp6yV1YQ6Z0 Lb8M/IWQEbaEE0htElMn3ydc+J65WGDRy0HQucb9AvtNAlJ3RWQPX4/7Lbuaoc3dF4Wm DXeGjE9EbU7aPrRnDUU6cnl8IsZTtwGzWm0CVABbxYYHi+nzpj1HzqFQadxUykuM57WQ 4bRR1gTL4RS2ByTjoq6IZhyavLay6nzPH4JEFQBQWqLNgGqmhk7UDuq6EjalGDbHM7zL 70aw== 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 10.52.174.232 with SMTP id bv8mr3536467vdc.13.1347891119115; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: yngwin@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.58.110 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:11:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120917145853.33db671d@googlemail.com> References: <20120916135211.GC23030@localhost> <20120917030821.GA15027@localhost> <20120917134149.0bc8ab72@googlemail.com> <20120917145853.33db671d@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:11:59 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xqenaZuRu6BUcZeonG0zGvoVguQ 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: 87ae5ed4-4ef5-4a5c-9330-746e6a53241c X-Archives-Hash: 73e70869e30c9f51fbd15ef032871777 On 17 September 2012 21:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:48:07 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> 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. > > And even now, people are using COMMON_DEPEND to work around *DEPEND > duplication. Yes, and that works just fine. I don't see what's wrong with that... -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin