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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] new depend atom?
From:       Marius Mauch <genone () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2004-11-29 12:37:55
Message-ID: 20041129143822.655916cb () sven ! genone ! homeip ! net
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:19:24 +0100
Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> wrote:

> so what about a new depend atom? i think such a line would be nice:
> 
> DEPEND="dev-php/php domxml"
> 
> if we used such a depend atom, we'd need less user interaction and no 
> einfo-workarounds, it'd be a proper way.
> 
> the problem of course is that portage has to know which use flags
> every package was built with and that the new depend atom possibly
> breaks backwards compatibilty. perhaps that could be in the same
> release as the solution for the MD5 issue?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272

Marius

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