On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:44:55 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > But the metadata cache isn't per-EAPI in the sense of multiple > metadata caches, one for each EAPI. There might be per-EAPI metadata > cache items though.
The cache format is per-EAPI, with a degree of overlap. > I don't think I want to have to specify userland_GNU and co in IUSE. > They aren't USE flags that get set by the user, so having to put them > in IUSE isn't intuitive either. And with the proposal as currently worded, you don't have to. The profiles do that magically for you. > Some might accept all current switches we pass with econf, but not > --disable-dependency-tracking. 'might'? Have you found any? Given the mess econf currently passes, it strikes me as highly unlikely. > Then we should disallow all constructs that currently give a repoman > warning as well? We should disallow constructs that can't be used correctly, if allowing them is a significant burden on the package manager. > Unknown types in this case is about "not packed at all". > Or we could define those types - .patch, .bin, etc > PM knows that there's .lzma, .xz and so on, so it could know which > build-time deps are necessary - repoman warning anyhow, later some > alternative unpacker might surface. Uh. Unknown types doesn't mean "fail on lzma if lzma's not installed". Please check the PMS draft for what it does mean. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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