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On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:49:10 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 19:07 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: |
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> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:30:55 +0200 |
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> > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > El sáb, 16-06-2012 a las 18:09 +0200, hasufell escribió: |
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> > > > It breaks the useflag philosophy, IMO. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Useflags were meant as switches. You can turn things on and off. |
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> > > > Pulling in optional dependencies via useflags does not allow the |
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> > > > user to turn something off when he sets USE="-foo" emerge |
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> > > > fuqbar. That should only be valid for virtuals or |
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> > > > meta-packages. And that's what those are for. |
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> > > > |
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> > > |
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> > > Maybe we could split them from RDEPEND to some kind of |
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> > > EXTRA_DEPEND (or something else) to fit this purpose. |
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> > There was already a lot of discussion about this and the community |
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> > didn't care enough to agree on one of the proposed solutions. You're |
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> > just reinventing one of them, with a new variable name and the same |
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> > disadvantages. |
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> Do you have a link to that old thread? Because current situation of |
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> relying on elog messages also has disadvantages |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/71794 |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72162 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |