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From:	Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To:	Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] The bindist USE flag and RESTRICT=bindist
Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:12:24
Message-Id:	`CAJ0EP41uC-vfWrj1HnKtM7q-DCEBpHkvAdRVSxscWQPCJZxmaA@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] The bindist USE flag and RESTRICT=bindist by Mike Gilbert

1	On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
2	> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3	>> IMHO, the bindist USE flag is redundant in these cases. So we should
4	>> get rid of the REQUIRED_USE and add a restriction instead:
5	>>
6	>> IUSE="foo"
7	>> RESTRICT="foo? ( bindist )"
8	>>
9	>> What do you think? Should we proceed in this direction?
10	>
11	> I like it. I think you should proceed.
12	>
13	> I proposed a relevant change for www-client/chromium in a previous thread.
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15	Sorry, GMail interpreted Ctrl-V as a send command there... here's a link:
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17	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/95057/focus=95058