On 08/31/2012 02:40 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > I like this as well. > However, since we're going to introduce a *DEPEND split, how about > splitting PDEPEND as well? > > As far as I've seen, PDEPEND has two (or more?) different meanings: > - advisory (for instance, informing users about plugins) > - cycle-breaking to help the dependency solver > > Would it be possible to add support for ODEPEND (as in "optional" > dependencies -- I don't really care about the variable name) as well? > This would be quite beneficial under certain circumstances. One of > these is when ebuilds are shipped with PDEPENDs which are not required > at runtime nor for cycle-breaking... > > Another scenario in where ODEPEND would be nice to have is with > systemd init files pulled in by USE=systemd (and generally use? ( > sys-apps/systemd ) in *DEPEND). Providing full systemd support for all > the packages without forcing users to have it installed, given that > openrc is the de-facto standard init system in Gentoo (and we don't > have any openrc? ( sys-apps/openrc )), would be a nice features for > binpkg repos. Users could then choose to enable or disable ODEPEND > during dependencies calculation via make.conf or argv. > > I don't want to diverge too much from the HDEPEND discussion, but I > think that if we're going to split *DEPEND, it might be a good > opportunity to do it right _once_ and _for all_.
For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the "runtime-switchable USE flags" proposal: https://gist.github.com/2945569 -- Thanks, Zac
