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On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: |
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> > It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. |
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> > Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. |
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> > Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not allow the |
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> > user to turn something off when he sets USE="-foo" emerge fuqbar. |
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> > That should only be valid for virtuals or meta-packages. And that's |
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> > what those are for. |
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> > |
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> Maybe we could split them from RDEPEND to some kind of EXTRA_DEPEND |
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> (or something else) to fit this purpose. |
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There was already a lot of discussion about this and the community |
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didn't care enough to agree on one of the proposed solutions. You're |
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just reinventing one of them, with a new variable name and the same |
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disadvantages. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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