On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:37 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:14:18 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a result of Cardoes earlier mail we talked a bit about possible > > solutions in #gento-portage, and I suggested to let portage > > automatically inject the deps based on SRC_URI pattern matching. > > A mapping of extensions and their unpack deps would be kept in the > > tree (e.g. mapping '.tar.bz2' to '( app-arch/tar app-arch/bzip2 )' > > Could do it just as an eclass... > > inherit work-out-my-unpack-deps-for-me > > In principle, there's nothing that can't be done on the ebuild side > here. Right, just I'd expect the parsing of SRC_URI (with conditionals) to be a bit tricky in bash, not something I'm going to work on. An eclass-based solution would have a few benefits though wrt the metadata cache. Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
