On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:56:37 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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".
Don't get too much into conspiracy theories, I think it has been
dismissed because it would require rewriting every dependency and
there has not been any portage implementation afaik.
Instead of that, people seem to prefer having [A-Z]DEPEND :)
