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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:12:08
Message-Id: 20120617130618.5fe46269@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual by hasufell
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4 On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:35:08 +0200
5 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
6 > On 06/16/2012 08:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 > > Suggested dependencies were used in the old kdebuilds, and Exherbo
8 > > makes extensive use of both suggested and recommended dependencies,
9 > > so there are plenty of examples, spec wording and an implementation
10 > > already if you want to play.
11 >
12 > I don't want to install Exherbo to see an example. Archlinux also has
13 > a nice implementation about optional dependencies and I don't care
14 > about that either.
15 >
16 > This is about a gentoo specific implementation and I am still not
17 > clear about how that proposed SDEPEND would look like.
18 > Are useflags allowed for those too? How do I "activate" it? Via a
19 > seperate config file in /etc/portage, is it a FEATURE? what what what
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21 Surely being able to use it and play around with it for real is better
22 than seeing some not very helpful textual examples pasted in... Anyway,
23 you can probably find the old kdebuilds somewhere, those run on Gentoo.
24 For that matter, the Paludis ebuild in the overlay makes use of
25 suggestions, although it's only for one small set of things.
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28 Ciaran McCreesh
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