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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:51:39
Message-Id: 1406317889.20388.25.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined by Ciaran McCreesh
1 El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 20:46 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
2 > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200
3 > Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> wrote:
4 > > Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps or the
5 > > REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but generally I think
6 > > that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite hard to understand for
7 > > unexperienced users -- much more so than the error generated by a
8 > > blocker dep.
9 >
10 > ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use pkg_pretend
11 > instead.
12 >
13
14 Could you give an example to let us see how pkg_pretend could be used to
15 achieve the same as REQUIRED_USE?
16
17 Thanks

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