When using 'ebuild-mode-skeleton' to create a completely new ebuild from scratch, it leaves out BDEPEND variable. It already suggests EAPI-7 to be used, so I feel like BDEPEND should be there. From what I could tell, simple patch like this was enough: diff -Naur ebuild-mode-1.50/ebuild-mode.el ebuild-mode-1.50.1/ebuild-mode.el --- ebuild-mode-1.50/ebuild-mode.el 2020-03-08 00:36:27.000000000 +0200 +++ ebuild-mode-1.50.1/ebuild-mode.el 2020-06-23 12:18:45.096162213 +0300 @@ -555,7 +555,8 @@ "\n" ;; dependencies "RDEPEND=\"\"\n" - "DEPEND=\"\$\{RDEPEND\}\"\n") + "DEPEND=\"\$\{RDEPEND\}\"\n" + "BDEPEND=\"\"\n") ;;; Keybindings.
Omitting BDEPEND was deliberate, because (at least in my understanding) policy still allows listing all build-time dependencies in DEPEND. See the Council log where EAPI 7 features have been approved: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20171112.txt [20:26:22] <mgorny> the relevant policy would be that developers are free to ignore BDEPEND and let people who care about cross fix it [20:26:48] <mgorny> (like they don't have to be 100% prefix safe right now) [20:26:54] <dilfridge> "fix it" = distribute things between BDEPEND and DEPEND [20:27:00] <ulm> yep
