Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

[David Leverton]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 18:15:27 Alexis Ballier wrote:
> I can think of checks like:
> - foo is a dep/rdep of bar
> - foo has a "plugin like" architecture
> - bar will "work" with minimal foo
> - most people will expect some features in bar that come with foo's
> plugins
> - we might want to display warnings for the most useful features
> - having useflags in bar for each of foo's useflags doesn't seem wise

If you mean something like

    built_with_use cat/foo coolfeature || ewarn "bar will be more useful if 
you rebuild cat/foo with USE=coolfeature"

then you can use

    has_version 'cat/foo[coolfeature]' || ...

instead.

> By the way, how will the --missing option of built_with_use be handled
> by eapi 2?

Not at all.