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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Future EAPI feature Request/RFC: ^^( ) for [RP]?DEPEND
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:57:43
Message-Id: 20120703185645.386a3550@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Future EAPI feature Request/RFC: ^^( ) for [RP]?DEPEND by Kent Fredric
1 On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:24:43 +1200
2 Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On 3 July 2012 19:08, Ciaran McCreesh
4 > <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:44:04 +1200
6 > > Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > >> Firstly, we already have a ^^( ) syntax for REQUIRED_USE , "one
8 > >> of, but not more than one of".
9 > >
10 > > A user has a and b installed. c depends upon ^^ ( a b ). The user
11 > > tries to install c. What happens?
12 >
13 > I'd expect that the user would have to remove one of ( a b ), the
14 > natural choice would be to remove b, a taking precedence.
15
16 But whether or not a and b can be installed together sounds an awful
17 lot like a property of a and b, not of c.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Future EAPI feature Request/RFC: ^^( ) for [RP]?DEPEND Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>