On 09/18/2012 12:29 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:25:57 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Also, if we change the meaning of RDEPEND in the next EAPI, so that
>> it's a hard build-time dep like DEPEND, then DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
>> virtual/pkgconfig" can be reduced to DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig". This
>> is what I would like to do for the experimental EAPI 5-hdepend which
>> is planned [1].
>
> What're we going to do about the zillions of unsolvable cycles that
> that would create? (Does Portage detect those and error out yet?)
Yeah, it would be treated just like a DEPEND cycle, which is already
detected and treated as a fatal error. As a result, when bumping the
EAPI of an ebuild, you may have to migrate some deps from RDEPEND to
PDEPEND in order to solve the cycles.
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Thanks,
Zac
