Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual

[hasufell]

On 06/16/2012 07:55 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>
> why not get this finally entirely out of the way:
>
> suggested/recommended dependencies support, like SDEPEND,
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/327701
>
> as in, threat them as RDEPEND if user has the option to pull them in
> enabled, otherwise print an uniformed postinst message
>
> as a bonus, this solution would also allow USE dependencies to work and
> would replace some cases of 'has_version foo/bar[use]'
>
> - Samuli
>

Sounds interesting, but I don't fully understand. Can you give an
example ebuild?