On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:18:20 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> does it actually ? are DEPEND variables not allowed to be expanded in >> pkg_* src_* funcs ? > > Nope. We don't guarantee that the metadata variable gets exported back > to the ebuild environment.
it's not a requirement, so if the PM doesn't export it, that's not a problem. if [[ ${DEPEND+set} == "set" ]] && ! has virtual/pkgconifg ${DEPEND} ; then eqawarn "..." fi -mike