Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:34:18 +0530
> "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com> wrote:
>> How about this:
>
> It's utterly useless. Unlike the existing shortcut forms, what you're
> after isn't widely enough used to warrant its own shortcut. Use the
> expanded form and have done with it.

On the contrary, the reverse of what you say is true. A simple grep of
the tree showed that:

95 ebuilds do  "use\ \([a-zA-Z0-9]\+\).*\&\&.*built_with_use.*\ \1\ "
and 937 do      "use.*\&\&.*built_with_use"

So, one would assume that ~842 ebuilds could make use of the
pkg[foo?bar] syntax.

Of course, this missed the ebuilds which do

if use blah; then
  built_with_use ...
...
fi

But statistically, these numbers should be accurate.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan