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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:39:34
Message-Id: 4FDD344C.5070707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On 06/16/2012 08:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > Suggested dependencies were used in the old kdebuilds, and Exherbo
6 > makes extensive use of both suggested and recommended dependencies,
7 > so there are plenty of examples, spec wording and an implementation
8 > already if you want to play.
9 >
10
11 I don't want to install Exherbo to see an example. Archlinux also has
12 a nice implementation about optional dependencies and I don't care
13 about that either.
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15 This is about a gentoo specific implementation and I am still not
16 clear about how that proposed SDEPEND would look like.
17 Are useflags allowed for those too? How do I "activate" it? Via a
18 seperate config file in /etc/portage, is it a FEATURE? what what what
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Re: [gentoo-dev] About using USE flags to pull in needed RDEPENDs being discouraged by devmanual Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>