On 03/02/2017 04:58 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
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> Is it really abusing ?
> := deps in DEPEND only would also make sense for e.g. code generators
>
Slot operator dependencies are ignored in DEPEND:
Indicates that any slot value is acceptable. In addition, for runtime
dependencies, indicates that the package will break unless a matching
package with slot and sub-slot equal to the slot and sub-slot of the
best installed version at the time the package was built is available.
In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND. That
makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will break"
rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's not an error
to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy everyone doing
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}".
