-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 23/03/12 12:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:14:39 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius > <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I don't know if I follow this one or not. When inheriting an >> eclass, all entities within the eclass get merged into the >> ebuild. As long as there aren't any special conditional tricks >> being used to assign to global variables like IUSE, it would >> still be invariant wouldn't it? > > The point is that the merging might be done inside the package > manager (not in bash code) on the IUSE metadata variable, and the > changes don't have to be reflected in the IUSE environment variable > inside the ebuild.
If that was the case, then eclasses could no longer append deps to (R)DEPEND, either .....? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk9spYUACgkQAJxUfCtlWe1g+QEA1NAl+nl3zCEOmTIjCN1271r7 pCJNO7aCW/iNrXniCQUA/3j1xktcStPmQL8rXPRLSjMy+vqBsclWQwFHa4eytu6B =g3Dz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
