Our use case is how we have our python package inject an install requirement into downstream packages:
build:
options:
- var: abi/cp311
choices:
- cp311
- cp311d
inheritance: Strong
description: The Python ABI flavor to use.This helps prevent accidentally forgetting to add this to downstream packages in the general case but sometimes a package only uses python as a tool as part of the build script but has no runtime requirement on python.
What we lack is a way for those packages to prevent inheriting the var.
Attempting to declare the var in the downstream package doesn't work:
install:
requirements:
# block inheriting python.abi from python
- var: python.abi/ERROR × Error: Cannot insert requirement: one already exists and only pkg requests can be merged: var: python.abi/ + var: python.abi/cp311
We could support this syntax but it is too easy to do something like this unintentionally. It would be more self-documenting to add a new attribute specifically for this opt-out purpose:
install:
requirements:
# block inheriting python.abi from python
- var: python.abi
suppress: "this package doesn't use python at runtime"It could be a boolean field (or not care what the value is) but here I used the value position as a place to document why it is there.
Our use case is how we have our python package inject an install requirement into downstream packages:
This helps prevent accidentally forgetting to add this to downstream packages in the general case but sometimes a package only uses python as a tool as part of the build script but has no runtime requirement on python.
What we lack is a way for those packages to prevent inheriting the var.
Attempting to declare the var in the downstream package doesn't work:
We could support this syntax but it is too easy to do something like this unintentionally. It would be more self-documenting to add a new attribute specifically for this opt-out purpose:
It could be a boolean field (or not care what the value is) but here I used the value position as a place to document why it is there.