On 17 September 2012 21:58, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:48:07 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> 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. > > And even now, people are using COMMON_DEPEND to work around *DEPEND > duplication.
Yes, and that works just fine. I don't see what's wrong with that... -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
