making users read ChangeLog and then emergeing gaim-encryption themselves is bad behavior imho ;) the simple fix is: PDEPEND="ssl? ( net-im/gaim-encryption )" that way the plugin is built after gaim and we still get our encryption w/out adding extra work for the users
Ahh I wasn't aware of PDEPEND. It's not documented in the developer/ebuild HOWTO. For now this would be a great solution. I'll have to take it out if another encryption plugin comes to play, like if gaim-e awakens from it's coma. Thanks for the tip.
thats because that doc is a HOWTO, it's not a definitive guide ;) most people dont need/care about PDEPEND thus it isnt listed ... it is however in the manpage ...
Well I think it would be good to list PDEPEND in the HOWTO along with the definitions of vars like DEPEND and RDEPEND. Otherwise perhaps we would be well served to have a definitive guide, and NOT just a man page. But that is for another discussion. PDEPEND is in place and working great. Thanks again for clueing me in! btw what man page is it in? I didn't find it in 'man ebuild'
`man ebuild` defaults to ebuild(1) which is the frontend (how to use the ebuild program) `man 5 ebuild` is the backend stuff (all the variables/functions you can use in an ebuild)
(In reply to comment #1) > Ahh I wasn't aware of PDEPEND. It's not documented in the developer/ebuild > HOWTO. > > For now this would be a great solution. I'll have to take it out if another > encryption plugin comes to play, like if gaim-e awakens from it's coma. > > Thanks for the tip. > gaim-otr has come into play and well it seems kinda funky that the crypt USEFLAG insists upon gaim-encryption. Because the two plugins are not mutually exclusive (AFAIK--they can both be installed at the same time, I've not tried to run them simultaneously) a PDEPEND="|| ( gaim-otr gaim-encryption )" would probably not be appropriate. A has_version hack could do the trick. Perhaps gaim-otr should be preferred if neither are installed given its deniability and perfect forward secrecy advantages over gaim-encryption.
