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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:18:12
Message-Id: 55CC52AA.1030405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Michael Palimaka
1 11.08.2015 16:49, Michael Palimaka пишет:
2 >> You think that REQUIRED_USE is abusive to users: fine. Point accepted.
3 >> I think that provided DEPEND strings if they will be typed at every
4 >> single qt-related ebuild that needs them are abusive to developers.
5 >>
6 >> So, maybe we should wrap them into eclass and stop riding our own
7 >> bicycles...
8 >>
9 >> And then - use apropriate one-liner where it's needed, providing
10 >> reasonable default and NOT confusing users with overmanaging their
11 >> package.use
12 >>
13 >
14 > Please read Ben's original post again. Dependency strings are not the topic.
15 >
16 >
17
18 If introducing new USE-flags or ignoring using REQUIRED_USE leads to
19 blowing the DEPEND variable, adding pain for the developers - it is the
20 topic, definitely
21
22 --
23 Best regards, Sergey Popov
24 Gentoo developer
25 Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
26 Gentoo Quality Assurance project lead
27 Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead

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