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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:28:50
Message-Id: 3c32af40801131828l57b0547ev1f19fab61ec92424@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation by Yuri Vasilevski
1 On 1/14/08, Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 USE="X cdio -aac#1 -cdparanoia#2 -encode ..."
4 >
5 > #1 aac needs encode
6 > #2 cdio conflicts with cdparanoia
7
8 This can be implemented with use.desc/use.local.desc. Paludis already
9 does that by default.
10
11 > But this logic will have to be exposed on a .ebuild level.
12 >
13
14 I don't think this is worth an EAPI change, or adding new variables to
15 ebuilds. metada.xml USE flag documentation could be extended to cover
16 such cases if it's really needed... but is it?
17
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19 Santiago M. Mola
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