On 17 September 2012 20:41, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:49:12 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Or, even easier and more straightforward: just keep using *DEPEND. The >> case hasn't been made yet why we need to change that in the first >> place. > > We're looking at something like eight *DEPEND variables in EAPI 6, with > considerable overlap between them all.
And like now, in the great majority of cases, only two or three will be used. The enormous cost of moving to a different system (or the folly of using two systems in parallel) is not worth the slight benefit of a more cosmetic handling of the few cases where a few more *DEPEND variables would be needed and/or there is some overlap to be dealt with. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
