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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:56 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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| You're a bit vague in the 'die in pkg_setup' bit; if you're |
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| referencing doing the changes now, and sticking a die in, I already |
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| explicitly stated the responsible party would need a wedgie if it was |
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| done; the "lets check for use flags on our deps in pkg_setup" is evil |
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| as hell, and *only* should be used when absolutely explicitly |
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| required. iow, wait for use deps unless you've got some damn good |
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| reason to fall back to the kludge while waiting. |
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For how many years have we been waiting for USE deps? I'd say that this |
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discussion is pretty much pointless. In the distant future when we do |
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get USE deps we'll no doubt have a whole different set of issues to |
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figure out. |
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| > We can't have client and server USE flags |
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| > because the meaning is totally different for every package. |
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| Meh, I disagree without counter examples provided of where |
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| client/server breaks down as a global use flag :) |
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Pretty much every case. It would never make sense to tinker with server |
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or client at a global level, so they'd be inappropriate as a global USE |
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flag. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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