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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:17:16
Message-Id: 55C9CB9F.1060603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Ulrich Mueller
1 09.08.2015 23:28, Ulrich Mueller пишет:
2 > I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly,
3 > and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it.
4
5 So, you prefer to make ugly mess of deps here like i posted before or
6 introduce some really unneded USE-flag like 'gui', 'qt', etc. to make
7 users even more confused?
8
9 Really, look at man-db ebuild. Especially on berkdb and gdbm USE flags.
10 And dependency string like this:
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12 !berkdb? ( !gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) )
13
14 One sentence: "WHAT THE HELL?"
15
16 Imagine that it would be dozen of flags. Is it fun to mess with deps
17 like this for you?
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19 --
20 Best regards, Sergey Popov
21 Gentoo developer
22 Gentoo Desktop Effects project lead
23 Gentoo Quality Assurance project lead
24 Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead

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[gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>