Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On a general note, introducing dynamic dependencies into the depgraph worries me, although I'm not sure I can articulate why. Can you articulate metadata cache? :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) - when portage ($pkgmanager) encounters a active/foo

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) - when portage

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:10 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm; one could get the same benefit by introducing a new interface (e.g. pkg_env_check()) which is defined to return true if the environment is ok, false otherwise (with some text to stdout, perhaps). The package

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Alec Warner
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:10 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm; one could get the same benefit by introducing a new interface (e.g. pkg_env_check()) which is defined to return true if the environment is ok, false otherwise (with some text to stdout,

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:26 + Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is to add a special category (let's call it active for now) that has the following properties: - this category doesn't exist in