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List: gentoo-dev
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage without portage
From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney () technaut ! darktalker ! net>
Date: 2003-10-29 17:46:14
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Nick Jones wrote:
>>I think I'll just stick with what I know. For now, I'm just doing 'emerge
>>info | grep USE' to get a complete list of USE flags. As for the DEPEND
>>line, I'm using a regex to extract each item, although its not going too
>>well.
>
> You can't do it that way. Portage does a lot of calculations based on
> things like virtuals, inherited-values, and eclasses. USE flags also
> have the potential to change during dep calculation due to binary
> package restrictions and eventually USE requirements as well.
>
> The way you're getting USE is ok for single packages.
>
> The DEPEND info isn't right. DEPEND, RDEPEND, and PDEPEND all can vary
> inside of an eclass, and depending upon if they are unset, empty, or
> set, they can affect the final output.
I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear any of that :) Something I'm curious about: what
is the difference between the different *DEPEND lines?
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Andrew Gaffney
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