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.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler)
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