On 15/12/10 12:06, justin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after testing this, and I have to say it mostly works smooth and fine, I
> hit a huge problem.
> 
> I wanted to emerge a package which just depends on glibc provided libs
> for the oposite ABI my main ABI is. This specific package has an
> optional support for python which would require to have a second python
> installation, so I disabled it. Nevertheless the package inherits the
> python.eclass which DEPENDS on eselect-python, which DEPENDS on python.
> Resulting in the need of a two ABI python installation although I don't
> want python support.
> 
> To solve this there are two options:
> 
> 1. Eclasses shouldn't be allowed to depend unconditionally on packages.
> In case of python where there is PYTHON_DEPEND="python? X" it should be
> doable.
> 2. USE dependend inherit of eclasses
> 
> 
> justin
> 

Please ignore this, I found somewhere deeply buried in a DEP the python
dependency. It wasn't from the eclass

Sorry for the noise.

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