On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:48:41 -0500 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What the hell are you talking about? No tools have even been | created yet. Nobody builds tools before the framework is in place. The | ability to make use of RRDEPEND as I've pointed out by verify-rdepend | and revdep-rebuild could be pretty much immediate. The ability to | control what level of depends a user wants in his/her depgraph is up | to the user. The way I envision it you could just as easliy do | ROOT=/dev/shm/minimal emerge -KO --deps="RDEPEND:DEPEND:PDEPEND" | pkgfoo To yield the same results as portage by default. In general | I'd suggest that you not attempt to make use of features that don't | suit your needs.
Why introduce a feature which is crippled? It would be almost as easy to allow ebuilds to mess with their 'real' runtime dependency value as appropriate rather than forcing an incorrect auto-generated list onto everyone. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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