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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:12:56 -0400 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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| USE=X is not a requirement for Gnome. Honestly, neither is USE=gtk or |
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| USE=gtk2. In fact, even USE=gnome isn't a requirement for Gnome. USE |
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| flags enable *optional* dependencies, not the real dependencies. That |
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| means that the dependency tree really has ZERO to do with USE flag |
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| grouping. Instead the USE flags should be grouped according to |
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| relationship, rather than dependency. At least, that's how I'm |
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| gauging this. |
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Personally I've been using the terms "purpose" and "functionality" |
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rather than "relationship", but yeah, that's the idea. Maybe I need to |
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make that clearer. |
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[ Still hoping that someone will come up with a really clever solution |
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which keeps Maurice happy without making the GLEP more complicated... ] |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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