Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] virtualx.eclass: Make VIRTUALX_DEPEND readonly in EAPI-8

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2021, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> +# Standard dependencies string that is automatically added to BDEPEND
> +# (in EAPI-6: DEPEND) unless VIRTUALX_REQUIRED is set to "manual".
> +# DEPRECATED: Pre-EAPI-8 you can specify the variable BEFORE inherit
> +# to add more dependencies.
> +[[ ${EAPI} == [67] ]] || VIRTUALX_DEPEND=""
> +VIRTUALX_DEPEND+="
>       x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb]
>       x11-apps/xhost
>  "
> +[[ ${EAPI} == [67] ]] || readonly VIRTUALX_DEPEND

I wonder about this one, because the *DEPEND variables are automatically
accumulated across eclasses and ebuild. What is the advantage of the
ebuild specifying VIRTUALX_DEPEND, instead of specifying BDEPEND
directly?

Ulrich

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