Le 28/12/2009 23:53, Fabio Erculiani a écrit : > Interesting, eventually somebody gave me a detailed and technical > explanation without [bla bla snip]. Thanks Rémi. > Yes, I agree with you that the best (and the one I would go for, too) > solution is adding support to a new *DEPEND, perhaps one that could > "host" build-deps only. It looks weird that other PMs out there do > that since 1994 (replace 1994 with older value). > Perhaps adding a big fat # XXX somewhere in ebuilds would have helped > us all in saving some time today.
We could indeed, but back then we had something like 20~30 dupes so it felt like an obvious fix. I'll start adding comments in the overlay to clear it up. > So, at least for now, I suspect I have to give up and close my shiny > 27 bugs. Right? I'm afraid so, yes :) But if you do want to tackle the EAPI/PMS issue, feel free to reuse the tracker for that. I'll gladly tune in for that discussion. Cheers, Rémi
