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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:25:46
Message-Id: 20150812192537.2a0969b1@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Alexis Ballier
1 On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:19:08 +0200
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3 > pkg_pretend still needs to be executed to guess what useflags are
4 > enabled or not, which information is needed before dependency
5 > calculation
6
7 You'd probably be implementing this in a "SAT modulo theories" kind of
8 way: find a solution, do the pkg_pretend checks, and if it fails spit a
9 nogood back into the resolver.
10
11 But this entire discussion is pointless, since Portage doesn't and
12 won't auto-resolve this stuff.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>