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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES to cut the excess in portage
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:33:17
Message-Id: 20061126223026.421ee57d@tycho.dirtyepic.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage by Enrico Weigelt
1 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > Can those flags be used in dependencies ?
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5 Not as far as I know. They're FEATURES, not flags, and are global.
6
7 > Let's say, some package needs certain tools (ie. TeX) for building
8 > its documentation, it would be stupid to build the whole docs
9 > and so require these tools, if docs are not wanted at all.
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11 That's what the doc USE flag is for. ;)
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14 by design, by neglect
15 dirtyepic gentoo org for a fact or just for effect
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