On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:10, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > I understand why this happend, and I know how to solve it. > > My point is: should the RDEPEND and DEPEND syntax in ebuilds be changed > so that this kind of problems can be detected before emerging?
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272 USE deps have been discussed many times on the gentoo-dev@ mailing list so search the archives if you want to know more about it. The syntax has been agreed on (cate-gory/pkg:use) but it still hasn't been implemented in portage. AFAIK zmedico plans to implement it in portage-2.1.3 when 2.1.2 has been stabilized. Even after it has been implemented it won't be possible to use it in the tree without an EAPI bump. This is to avoid people who haven't yet upgraded portage from getting weird problems because it doesn't understand the syntax... Before the EAPI can be bumped to a newer version, the current version needs to be defined. spb is working on that now but it still needs to be agreed on... -- Bo Andresen
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