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On Saturday 17 April 2004 15:54, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> Sorry I should have been more specific. I meant that "-X" explicitly |
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> states no X, so a package such as tk should fail because it depends on |
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> X. |
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USE flags do not work that way. They enable or disable *optional* features |
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only. They do not disable dependencies that a package always requires. |
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It's a historical convention, and one that can cause confusion ;-) |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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