Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.mask and no* flags
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:44:31
Message-Id: 200409271744.21077.luke-jr@utopios.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.mask and no* flags by Luke-Jr
1 On Monday 27 September 2004 5:42 pm, Luke-Jr wrote:
2 > The annoying thing is when people decide to add libcaca to use.mask (amd64)
3 > when it only breaks certain packages. One package (IIRC, mplayer) will work
4 > perfectly fine with libcaca, but use.mask prevents it from being enabled
5 > anyway, simply because every other package IUSEing it breaks.
6 And the point of this... this is a case where you would probably *want* to use
7 such a 'arch?' in DEPEND, since it seems to be a per-package issue.
8 --
9 Luke-Jr
10 Developer, Utopios
11 http://utopios.org/