Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2008-01-01 Thread Luca Barbato
Marius Mauch wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:11 +0100 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - tools to explicitly manipulate sets > > Elaborate. > > Marius add/remove/move packages to a set on merge command you can define additional sets in which put the package etc etc etc. lu -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:38:10 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Multiply number of dep types (build, run, install, compile against, > > post, probably more) by number of requirement levels (required, > > suggested, recommended) by number of ABI combinations by number of > > system co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > You can't sensibly have backwards compatibility across new deps if all > the requested options are implemented anyway -- there's no exact > mapping between the current three vars and all the new ones. New deps > has to be an EAPI change, and it has to be an ebuild change.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:47:50 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have a look at the labels bug (201499). > > Similar idea, but I don't like the labels that much, > > having separate vars can make backward compatibility easy You can't sensibly have backwards compatibility across new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:11 +0100 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some items I have in wishlist >> >> - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to >> run) >> - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) >> >> - arch/ctarge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:12:11 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some items I have in wishlist > > - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to > run) > - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) > > - arch/ctarget support in deps (same way you

[gentoo-dev] Random items I'd like to discuss

2007-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Some items I have in wishlist - LRDEPEND link runtime dep (I need to link against that in order to run) - BDEPEND build dep (I need those tools in order to build) - arch/ctarget support in deps (same way you have use deps) - explicit ctarget support in the package manager emerge --cross=target s