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On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> wrote: |
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> Why? It’s just another dependency. Why does DEPEND="dev-libs/bar" work |
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> so beautifully but DEPEND="dev-libs/bar[baz]" work so horribly? If I |
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> haven’t explicitly said I want baz, and I haven’t explicitly said I |
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> *don’t* want baz, and enabling baz doesn’t conflict with any other |
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> packages I have installed, Portage should just rebuild dev-libs/bar |
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> with USE=+baz. If I eventually uninstall app-cat/foo, something like |
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> depclean should reinstall dev-libs/bar with USE=-baz. Just like all the |
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> other dependencies, if I don’t care to make a manual choice, it should |
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> be automatic and dynamic. |
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Yup: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9049ca48351170013f9b373b5f256e27 |
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Rich |
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