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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:37:42
Message-Id: 20150813183719.085af89b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Patrick Lauer
1 On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:44:58 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 08/12/15 22:38, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > I always wondered why pkg_pretend never caught on.
5 >
6 > Because, in a way, it triggers at the wrong point of the merge.
7 >
8 > emerge -pv fnurk => dependencies look ok
9 >
10 > emerge fnurk => pkg_pretend bails out ... eh?!
11 >
12 > (This would be a little bit confusing, if not actively hostile, and
13 > useflags + required_use are a lot more 'natural' to the emerge
14 > workflow)
15
16 Uh, the point of the 'pretend' bit in the name is that it *is* run when
17 you do emerge -p.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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