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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFCv2: USE=avcodec (+ USE=ffmpeg/libav)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:02:53
Message-Id: 54BEB45E.5080300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFCv2: USE=avcodec (+ USE=ffmpeg/libav) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 01/20/2015 09:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:41:21 +0100
3 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Seriously? You expect users to figure out [1] what combinations of
5 >> USE flags will work for such an ebuild?
6 >
7 > Why don't we just admit that Brian was horribly wrong, scrap
8 > REQUIRED_USE in the next EAPI, and go back to the sensible,
9 > tried-and-tested way of doing it that I proposed to begin with?
10
11 Regardless of whether or not (or how) we choose to apply REQUIRED_USE to
12 various cases, I think we should keep REQUIRED_USE around, since having
13 a machine-readable representation of these constraints can potentially
14 be extremely useful to dependency resolvers.
15 --
16 Thanks,
17 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFCv2: USE=avcodec (+ USE=ffmpeg/libav) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>