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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a generic solution to non-USE-conditional circular deps
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:14:32
Message-Id: 20150411191408.0cb1f1b5@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a generic solution to non-USE-conditional circular deps by James Le Cuirot
1 Dnia 2015-04-11, o godz. 15:23:52
2 James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:00:36 +0200
5 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > As that USE flag should only be used for being able to install the
8 > > package the first time, maybe it should be treated in a "special"
9 > > way. I mean, it shouldn't be easily changed by users but, instead,
10 > > switched "internally" by the package manager to allow to unbreak the
11 > > cycle.
12 >
13 > If it only needs to be applied the first time, should there even be a
14 > flag at all? Maybe it could be more transparent than that?
15
16 You have to have the flag to conditionally apply dependencies. We don't
17 have a magic 'only-if-it-doesnt-cause-circulars' syntax :P.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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