Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a generic solution to non-USE-conditional circular deps

[Kent Fredric]

On 00:29, Sun, 12/04/2015 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:



I think the simplest solution would be to develop a generic USE flag
that would only serve the purpose of forcing bundled dependencies for
bootstrapping/initial install.

We have already:

build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for
creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1]

bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used
during original system bootstrapping [make stage2]

However, since both are marked for 'internal use only', I don't think
it's a good idea to use them here. So I guess we need a new flag. Does
anyone have suggestions how to name it?



 For a name, I doubt you'd find a name better than "independent". With USE
description of "avoid dependencies known to cause circular dependency
issues on initial installations"