On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 06/02/2011 03:04 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> For this problem, I think some kind of per-ebuild ABI_DEPENDENT flag >> should be used to recognize which packages ABI dependencies should >> apply to. Without thinking about it too hard, it seems like perhaps >> only packages in RDEPEND should be considered for ABI USE >> dependencies. > > We can express it with either of the existing PROPERTIES or RESTRICT > variables. This way, we don't need to add a whole new variable every > time that we decide to add a boolean flag like this. > -- > Thanks, > Zac
Hi Zac, Thanks for the response. Have you looked at Tommy[D]'s work? What do you think needs to happen for it to be merged? Thanks, Matt