On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:59 -0500, Brian Jackson wrote: > Martin Schlemmer wrote: > <snip> > >> > >>Big picture here: > >>* BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to > >>* in the future it will make other things possible > >>* give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that > >>portage doesn't handle it right now... I think out of anyone, he knows what > >>portage does and doesn't handle > >> > > > > > > I did ask Brian in another reply how he thought to implement it. > > > > This one however I read as Drake saying/asking that we should start > > doing it now, and I tried to explain why we could not up until now, and > > still cannot. Correct me if I interpreted it wrongly. > > > > > > I don't know why we can't start now if we want. BDEPEND will be silently > ignored, so current versions of portage will just be blissfully ignorant. > > Am I missing something? >
Yeah, I thought Drake was talking about DEPEND (that was at least what he said), not BDEPEND. > Some of us think we can't start now, others think we can. I was under the > impression from ferringb that we could. > BDEPEND should be fine to start now depending on faith. -- Martin
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