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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:46:28
Message-Id: 4FDCB774.3090602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual by Pacho Ramos
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4 On 06/16/2012 06:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió:
6 >> It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO.
7 >>
8 >> Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off.
9 >> Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not allow the
10 >> user to turn something off when he sets USE="-foo" emerge
11 >> fuqbar. That should only be valid for virtuals or meta-packages.
12 >> And that's what those are for.
13 >>
14 >
15 > Maybe we could split them from RDEPEND to some kind of EXTRA_DEPEND
16 > (or something else) to fit this purpose.
17
18 I would like the idea of having EXTRA_DEPEND which will then
19 automatically be elogged in pkg_postinst and maybe recorded in a
20 seperate file in /var/lib/portage?
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