On 08/08/2012 05:07 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> So do you know how many ebuilds we'd have to update to get it right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> At the moment, no. If someone could help me write a script to identify
>>> affected packages, that would be great.
>>>
>>> If said script uses the portage api to determine the dependency tree,
>>> we will want to modify python.eclass first to reduce the number of
>>> hits. This could be done in a local copy of the tree.
>>
>> I've created a quick little script and posted it in my devspace. Now I
>> just need to mess with python.eclass.
>>
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/python-deps.py
> 
> After modifying python.eclass, distutils.eclass, java-ant-2.eclass,
> and waf-utils.eclass, there are 532 dependencies that would need to be
> modified to make the || dep plan work. I have attached the list for
> reference.
> 
> Does this seem like a viable option? Is anyone going to volunteer to
> take it from here?

I can try to make time to make these changes this weekend if everyone is
fine with that.