On 03/05/2010 08:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> sometimes i have optional patches (ignoring the "patches should always be
> applied") where autotools should be run. always inheriting autotools is
> currently annoying because it always adds the related dependencies. USE based
> inherits are obviously out.
>
> so unless there's some burgeoning standard i'm not aware of, below is what i
> have in mind. packages set AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND to "no" before inheriting
> autotools.eclass and that allows them to put ${AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND} behind a USE
> flag in their own DEPEND string.
> What we use in Java is JAVA_PKG_OPT_USE to declare what use flag the DEPENDs should be under. This approach doesn't allow the ebuild maintainer to forget adding the depends. Regards, Petteri
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