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?