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On 01/20/2015 09:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:41:21 +0100 |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Seriously? You expect users to figure out [1] what combinations of |
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>> USE flags will work for such an ebuild? |
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> Why don't we just admit that Brian was horribly wrong, scrap |
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> REQUIRED_USE in the next EAPI, and go back to the sensible, |
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> tried-and-tested way of doing it that I proposed to begin with? |
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Regardless of whether or not (or how) we choose to apply REQUIRED_USE to |
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various cases, I think we should keep REQUIRED_USE around, since having |
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a machine-readable representation of these constraints can potentially |
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be extremely useful to dependency resolvers. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |