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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild dependencies
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:39:16
Message-Id: 1007501835.2303.36.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ebuild dependencies by Zach Forrest
1 On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 23:25, Zach Forrest wrote:
2 > After looking through some ebuild files, I have noticed that some of the
3 > depends entries have a question mark after them. I'm not exatly sure
4 > what this means, but it seems like an optional dependency, maybe for a
5 > use flag?
6 >
7 > Example:
8 > decss? ( media-libs/libdvdcss )
9 >
10 > If someone wouldn't mind giving me a quick how-to, I would really
11 > appreciate it.
12 >
13
14 it means if you have decss in your USE flags, media-libs/libdvdcss will
15 be a dependancy, else not ....
16
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19 Martin Schlemmer
20 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
21 Cape Town, South Africa