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>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> Not just my proposal- council contradicted it via even letting |
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> pkg_pretend into EAPI3 (now EAPI4): |
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-council@l.g.o/msg00493.html |
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It says "displaying conflicting USE flags" which doesn't necessarily |
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imply that the ebuild should fail. |
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> I honestly consider the ebuild silently making decisions on the |
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> user's behalf *worse*. |
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Right, this is exactly what we should decide on, before talking about |
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possible implementations. |
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We already have enough issues with circular dependencies, and I'm |
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sceptical about adding additional failures on USE flag conflicts. |
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Display a warning, but don't error out. |
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Ulrich |
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