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On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:43:47 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > > - being package-oriented rather than feature-oriented,
> >
> > No; use flags are our configuration space, and they turn on/off
> > sections of the given pkgs graph. Your proposal relies on the same
> > concept; bluntly, what you're proposing is just as 'package
> > oriented'.
> >
> > Effectively, you can't dismiss SDEPEND/ODEPEND via changing the
> > rules between your proposal and ODEPEND's proposal. Nice try
> > though. :)
>
> USE flags can describe features, like USE=ssl, USE=html, USE=whatever.
> The exherbo suggested dependencies just list the relevant packages.
>
> In other words, here you enable USE=html to get HTML output. With
> SDEPEND, you would --take dev-python/somerandomhtmllibrary.
Incorrect. Exherbo allows suggestions to be grouped, described and
taken by feature. It's done via annotations (the same mechanism used to
provide decent handling of blockers etc). Search for "group-name" in
exheres-for-smarties for an example.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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