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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:43:55 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > Hm, how about adding a new PM command like "required_use foo -bar"? |
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> > It would be used exclusively in pkg_pretend, and tell the PM to |
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> > suggest the necessary package.use changes to the user (or even |
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> > update them automatically with the appropriate --autounmask-* |
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> > option). |
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> To clarify, I'm thinking about something like this: |
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> pkg_pretend() { |
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> if use qt4; then |
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> required_use -qt5 |
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> else |
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> required_use qt5 |
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> fi |
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> } |
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> The advantage would be that any number of elog messages could be added |
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> which would further explain things to the user. |
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And how would the PM understand that -qt5 is conditional upon qt4? Such |
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knowledge is required if it's supposed to auto-resolve stuff... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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