On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:15 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:

[snip stuff]
Need to head to bed now. Will respond to other parts tomorrow.



> > A little bit of a longer term goal is to see portage gain 
> > the ability to request to only use RRDEPEND entries to be used for
> > depgraph creation for use with embedded/mimimal systems.
> >
> > ROOT=/dev/shm/minimal emerge -KO --deps="RRDEPEND" pkgfoo


> This is definitely not something that could be done in any of 2.x unless it's 
> done as an external tool (which would not be so hard as order doesn't matter 
> with binary packages). I'm not sure that I like the idea of selectively 
> ignoring *DEPEND in 3.x anyway - by that stage sanity checking should be 100% 
> but selective *DEPENDs will either poke huge holes through it or make a huge 
> mess. Either way, it's not a tomorrow thing so discussion should probably 
> wait until it's more viable.

That's fine I'm not ready to focus on --deps= right away. As stated 
it's a longer term goal and I would also prefer to discuss it at a later
time.

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Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux

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