Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5?

[Zac Medico]

On 08/31/2012 04:07 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:03:25 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>>> runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It
>>> sounds like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
>>
>> All suggested deps are not equal, so USE flags give you the ability to
>> pick and choose the ones that you want.
>
> So does --take / --ignore with suggested dependencies, with the added
> advantage that suggested packages don't end up being brought in without
> user request just because a user has a particular use flag enabled
> globally.

If the USE flags have ambiguous meanings doesn't that mean that they've
been poorly named?
-- 
Thanks,
Zac