On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:58:49 -0700 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 08/31/2012 02:40 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > I like this as well. > > However, since we're going to introduce a *DEPEND split, how about > > splitting PDEPEND as well? > > > > As far as I've seen, PDEPEND has two (or more?) different meanings: > > - advisory (for instance, informing users about plugins) > > - cycle-breaking to help the dependency solver > > > > Would it be possible to add support for ODEPEND (as in "optional" > > dependencies -- I don't really care about the variable name) as > > well? This would be quite beneficial under certain circumstances. > > One of these is when ebuilds are shipped with PDEPENDs which are > > not required at runtime nor for cycle-breaking... > > > > Another scenario in where ODEPEND would be nice to have is with > > systemd init files pulled in by USE=systemd (and generally use? ( > > sys-apps/systemd ) in *DEPEND). Providing full systemd support for > > all the packages without forcing users to have it installed, given > > that openrc is the de-facto standard init system in Gentoo (and we > > don't have any openrc? ( sys-apps/openrc )), would be a nice > > features for binpkg repos. Users could then choose to enable or > > disable ODEPEND during dependencies calculation via make.conf or > > argv. > > > > I don't want to diverge too much from the HDEPEND discussion, but I > > think that if we're going to split *DEPEND, it might be a good > > opportunity to do it right _once_ and _for all_. > > For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the > "runtime-switchable USE flags" proposal: > > https://gist.github.com/2945569 The canonical URI is: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0062.html -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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