On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:26 +0000 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:51 +0100 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The idea is to add a special category (let's call it "active" for > > now) that has the following properties: > > - this category doesn't exist in portdir or vdb (= no ebuilds) > > - when portage ($pkgmanager) encounters a "active/foo" atom in a > > dependency string it executes some special code (e.g. > > "$PORTDIR/scripts/active-check/foo =active/foo-1") to determine if > > that atom is satisfied > > Given that in the general case the package manager can't change the > active provider and will have to bail with an appropriate message that > the user needs to change it themselves, the obvious solution to this is > the previously-discussed-somewhere-I-can't-remember ebuild function, > called on depgraph creation, to check that it will be able to compile > in the current system environment. It's considerably simpler and more > generally useful than subverting DEPEND to add weird special-case hacks > to it. Yeah, thinking about it I have to agree tat generic dep_check() support (to give the thing a name) would be a better solution here. Marius -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
