On 17 September 2012 22:14, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:11:59 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > 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... > > Well perhaps you should read Brian's lengthy explanation that started > this thread, then.
If you mean the email that started this thread, that was neither lengthy nor explanatory. If you mean the GLEP, that is indeed lengthy, but mostly goes into the mechanism. It doesn't go into the rationale to any degree of satisfaction. It doesn't make at all clear why the supposed benefits would outweigh the costs of such a big change. If I missed any such explanation among the myriad of related threads, then please be so kind to link to it. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
