On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:47:35 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/02/2017 09:24 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >>
> >> In other words, the ":=" only does something special in RDEPEND.
> >> That makes sense when you think of it as meaning "the thing will
> >> break" rather than "I want to do a rebuild." The only reason it's
> >> not an error to put them in DEPEND is because it would annoy
> >> everyone doing DEPEND="${RDEPEND}".
> >
> > Portage has interesting behavior for ":=" in DEPEND: it varies
> > depending on your "with-bdeps" setting.
> >
>
> This is why we can't have nice things.
Actually you can't have nice things because the labels proposal was
voted down for "being invented by the wrong people".
--
Ciaran McCreesh
