-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As suggested by SpanKY in the bug report itself but never done until now I'll gladly start up the discussion.
The bug report[1] is a request from the embedded team to change how DEPEND and REDEPEND are assigned in an ebuild. At present the documentation[2] states that RDEPEND if not specified will be set to DEPEND. Apparently the embedded team has issue with that, mostly that it pollutes exactly what RDEPEND is there for, making their ROOT much larger than it has to be. The actual fix to the bug is a minor one, a small check to Repoman to make sure ebuilds have both DEPEND and RDEPEND set; and to warn if they are not set. However the use of DEPEND and RDEPEND in the manner that they are requesting is a large change and thus was brought here for discussion. [1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79337 [2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQplXsGzglR5RwbyYAQKamA/+P7ZGkbcfvg9xMcIzK4CNMNXUupWGUxQ1 qepbFLmQARBNQgo9GKUZNsMvukPkA+qHG78NOqSixYysWxNy/5ZHs9JcW635wx+q iigzX4vYe+a8MQzfMF2sJ7HNcE5yEG2YfQzRQboYJZRRZmeZ2yX01m2s94+tLkDw 1m2bfX6MDRMSDQ3Dtga3YPMeyDtk21q7bMwvLzkjL1eyXwax7SVO9hUh88jXXQZe DzrgBEGuOhmkIFcr4Ql242fppg4zWuXdmfbSrETITGTx9ebRTMWYFdU5BW/tuzm5 heIdc01YiLyCzQBAtYuzU3qHmkMefjk7+9JQIAVGS34Qad4qPUX4LfP1FrcnmTu8 TwGVh5ccKN7mJ7KIPSdaXB6yqlXhfr3nGIEh45xK52Sh3Z+Any1rNJWept9shM7l k7vFJ8QxdhhjrdO3mwW8YZySBvVbuPT79agk2BHCJt/NkuGCpFdjxKDV4QkRFt4e 7b9FI+xpRExsuKXt8snSfee1TY63+NxRppw1MV2LKdKZ9rKpiUmY42KkaK8n8aEd MbeqhgVGOTMUkJv1AOWbdQ/AI+bgUSzSJsxaWnT6lDffSQhd7pighragq1OlvGHf OcLmT7W6cqFZV7BM+vulTK2GTuov3Ic3UacjfpMxPZx0E9Ytj7KGzH0Ij8iGD9C6 Mti7Gl9X+lU= =lwur -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
