Bug 174675

Summary:	java-config make it possible to use \|\| ( ) deps for providers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	157357
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Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-15 12:06:40 UTC

Currently if the application for example detects the XML parser used at runtime we put all the parsers it can possibly use to DEPEND and RDEPEND. I think it would be better to extend package.env so that java-config checks which ones are installed and puts those to classpath. On the gjl side this can be implemented using Java virtuals but that doesn't work on the DEPEND side because we require all of them installed to be able to build all the providers. This approach should be most useful if we ever get a binary repo setup.

Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-15 12:09:30 UTC

Hmm. Should be implementable this way:
for DEPEND use --build-only and then register runtime dep on the virtual. We should find out what all packages can benefit from this.

Comment 2 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-20 10:48:13 UTC

Has this been solved with the register-optional-dep functionality?