On 03/02/2017 06:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky 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.
For those that are interested, I'm planning to to make --with-bdeps
automatically enabled when possible:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598444#c4
I hope to implement this very soon, to be included in the next portage
release.
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Thanks,
Zac
