On 09/07/2012 09:58 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:53:46 -0700 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> 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. > > In that case, why do we need HDEPEND at all?
With existing EAPIs, it's possible to use DEPEND for host buildtime-only deps, RDEPEND for target build+run deps, and PDEPEND for target runtime-only deps. However, there's no way to to specify buildtime-only target deps (that aren't needed at runtime). The HDEPEND proposal involves solves this by using HDEPEND for host buildtime-only deps, and DEPEND for target buildtime-only deps. -- Thanks, Zac
