Hello, Here's another potential EAPI 8 feature I'd like to discuss. Please note that this is about *new dependency type*, so please don't hijack it into the big 'let's steal Exherbo syntax' debate.
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/660306 The problem =========== Right now we don't really have a clean way of specifying dependencies that are used during pkg_*inst (and pkg_*rm?) phases. So far RDEPEND was used as a 'close enough' alternative (except for a few developers who rejected it as 'invalid' and used DEPEND which is even more wrong). However, this is no longer sufficient with EAPI 7 cross support. By design, pkg_*inst phases are run in build host's environment when cross is used (because obviously you can't run target host executables). Therefore, the relevant dependencies need to be installed into CBUILD root, while RDEPEND is installed into CHOST root. The proposed solution ===================== The proposal is to add a new dependency type (codename: IDEPEND) which indicates dependencies used for pkg_*inst (and pkg_*rm?) phases. Those dependencies would be installed into CBUILD root (like BDEPEND), and therefore would be runnable from build host. Similarly to RDEPEND, they would be installed for binary package installs but not for pure binpkg builds (without install). Example: inherit xdg-utils IDEPEND="dev-util/desktop-file-utils" pkg_postinst() { xdg_desktop_database_update } WDYT? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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