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On Saturday 04 March 2006 23:45, Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 14:24 schrieb Thomas de Grenier de Latour: |
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> > One point of view on this issues is that the ebuilds are wrong, because |
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> > they are abusing the said USE flags, and they should rather die. Imho, |
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> > it makes sense, but if such a strict policy was applied to every |
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> > ebuilds which atm are abusing flags this way, it would become really |
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> > hard to put anything in the make.conf USE variable without breaking |
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> > "emerge -uD world". |
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> Just to throw in my 2 cents into this discussion: I'm all against die-ing |
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> during the update process. However, i think that stopping before the update |
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> process would be the best solution at hand. I'd like to propose the addition |
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> of a dedicated USE conflict detection to ebuilds which need it. |
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This sounds the most reasonable. I can't see portage ever supporting "the 'foo' |
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and 'bar' flags can be used together except when 'baz' is also used" type flag |
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interdepency complexity. As Mike pointed out, check_license also needs to be |
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accounted for as well as possible others. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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