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On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:12:53 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ah, ok, I was wondering why REQUIRED_USE was implemented then :/, I |
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> guess it was for simplifying ebuilds? |
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It was a historical mistake: originally we were going to use |
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pkg_pretend for this. But claims were made that this would break some |
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mythical auto-building systems, and that something machine-readable was |
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needed. Unfortunately the Council bought this, and put through |
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REQUIRED_USE without a reference implementation. |
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Needless to say, the end result is something that isn't human-readable, |
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and isn't used by any mythical auto-building systems. |
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(Incidentally, Exherbo has a both human- and machine-readable |
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implementation, which *is* used by an auto-building system, but the |
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syntax won't meet Gentoo approval...) |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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