Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policy for conflicting USE flags

[Zac Medico]

On 02/09/2011 03:11 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> In order to try to avoid forcing users to micro-manage flags too much,
> it might make sense to avoid REQUIRED_USE whenever it's possible to do a
> build that will almost certainly suit the user's needs. The most common
> case that I can imagine where REQUIRED_USE is really necessary is for
> libraries were reverse USE dependencies might be broken without it.

To clarify about issues with reverse USE dependencies, I mean  any
library with something like REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( a b )" where either a or
b would be specified in reverse USE dependencies.  Also, it's worth
noting that something like REQUIRED_USE="c? ( ^^ ( a b ) )" may not need
REQUIRED_USE if reverse USE dependencies dep on c rather than a or b.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac