Martin Schlemmer wrote: <snip> >> >>Big picture here: >>* BDEPEND does nothing now, so don't worry about it if you don't want to >>* in the future it will make other things possible >>* give the man problems you see with the proposal, not just tell him that >>portage doesn't handle it right now... I think out of anyone, he knows what >>portage does and doesn't handle >> > > > I did ask Brian in another reply how he thought to implement it. > > This one however I read as Drake saying/asking that we should start > doing it now, and I tried to explain why we could not up until now, and > still cannot. Correct me if I interpreted it wrongly. > >
I don't know why we can't start now if we want. BDEPEND will be silently ignored, so current versions of portage will just be blissfully ignorant. Am I missing something? Some of us think we can't start now, others think we can. I was under the impression from ferringb that we could. --Iggy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
