Bug 5731

Summary:	portage-2.0.20 \|\| ( foo bar )
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Maurizio Disimino <kevin>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	kevin
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

2002-07-29 20:55:58 UTC

We generally use USE variables for this.