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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:46:26 -0700 |
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Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Actual name I don't hugely care about, I'm more interested in |
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> ensuring we don't rule out doing use cycle breaking via a bad design |
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> decision. |
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Cycle breaking requires explicit instructions from the ebuilds in |
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question (many of which are system things, which further complicates it) |
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along with support from Portage, so it's a distant future, lot of work |
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thing. |
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Since we need pkg_pretend to cover all the things that aren't use flag |
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related anyway, it makes sense to just go with that rather than |
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delaying things even further. When in the distant future Portage |
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becomes able to deal with cycle breaking, ebuilds can be converted to |
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use something like VALID_USE when they're also updated to export |
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information on which of their flags can safely be toggled. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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