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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: qa@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:28:35
Message-Id: 21959.47077.385371.459100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Sergey Popov
1 >>>>> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015, Sergey Popov wrote:
2
3 > <qa team lead hat>
4 > In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended
5 > USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5")
6
7 > </qa team lead hat>
8
9 > That's most painless decision for both developers and users. Developers
10 > do not need to maintain ugly dependencies like
11
12 > DEPEND="qt4 ? (
13 > qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:5 )
14 > !qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:4 )
15 > )
16 > ...
17 > "
18 > and other mess.
19
20 > </qa team lead hat>
21
22 I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly,
23 and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it.
24
25 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>