On 09/07/2012 09:10 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:46:41 -0300 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> For example, what is the HDEPEND equivalent for DEPENDENCIES ? exherbo >> documentation doesn't seem to mention an equivalent label. > > DEPENDENCIES is essentially independent of what label names we > introduce. I get the impression Gentoo will be bikeshedding, er, I mean > selecting shorter names for some of the labels than what Exherbo is > using. So HDEPEND could be 'host' if you like. > > In any case, the reason you don't see a 'host' label on Exherbo is > because it's called 'build'. Exherbo's taken a more comprehensive > approach to handling ROOT-related dependencies -- dependency resolution > for ROOT!=/ still uses / for satisfying not-purely-runtimeish > dependencies, and then has a way of locking versions on / to versions > in ROOT. It does rely upon having a fully-ROOT-and-/-aware resolver, > though, so it may not be suitable for Gentoo.
If you're insinuating that Portage may not have a "fully-ROOT-and-/-aware resolver", then I can assure you that this is not a problem. The only reason that Portage currently doesn't have "a way of locking versions on / to versions in ROOT" is that none of the existing EAPIs have a way to express this kind of dependency constraint. -- Thanks, Zacd
