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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Maybe there could be an extra file, ie. package.use.alias |
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> foo/bar gui=gtk |
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> blah/blubb gui=qt2 |
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> ... |
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> I'm not sure if this alias handling should be done by emerge, |
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> or better by some frontend (I learned that explicit downgrade |
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> warnings should be done by an frontend, so why should useflag |
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> aliasing shouldn't ?). But I'm sure these information should |
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> not go directly to the ebuilds. |
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Look, you really didn't invent anything new (refer fex. to GLEP-29) |
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- http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0029.html |
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- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109802333600005&r=1&w=2 |
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Unless you have some reference implementation that doesn't suck and does |
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address all the concerns why this has been withdrawn, there's no point |
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in continuing this discussion and flooding the mailing list. If you read |
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on the above, it turned out that instead of simplification things can |
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become a lot more complicated and confusing instead. |
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Best regards, |
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Jakub Moc |
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mailto:jakub@g.o |
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