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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal
From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>
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On 17 September 2012 21:58, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:48:07 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 17 September 2012 20:41, Ciaran McCreesh
>> <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:49:12 +0800
>> > Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> 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...
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Ben | yngwin
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