Bug 5731 – portage-2.0.20 || ( foo bar )

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Maurizio Disimino 2002-07-29 10:51:19 UTC]

from the Portage Changelog:

DEPEND="|| ( foo bar oni )" now works
  correctly and will try to satisfy "foo" (the first package) 
if none are installed.

Really a good work. This is an useful statement.
Now, I think, we just need a way to specify 
behavior A if "foo" is installed, behavior B if
"bar" is installed and so on ..

A workaround would be [ -x /path/of/foo ]; then
but portage might offer a better way.

Thanks.

Maurizio Disimino

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-07-29 20:55:58 UTC]

We generally use USE variables for this.