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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:45:07
Message-Id: pan.2012.06.24.11.43.52@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:30:53 -0700 as excerpted:
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3 > On 06/16/2012 02:56 PM, Duncan wrote:
4 >> Meanwhile, one coming solution to this, in portage 2.2 anyway, is sets.
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6 >> Unfortunately, it has begun to look like sets are where baselayout2 and
7 >> openrc were for many years, "forever coming, never getting here", at
8 >> least for stable or even unmasked into ~arch. =:^(
9 >
10 > Support for /etc/portage/sets is included in portage-2.1.11:
11 >
12 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384061
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15 Hallelujah! I see from the bug comments that it just landed, too.
16 Thanks!
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21 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
22 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman