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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:48:11 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> We don't want users having to solve a Zebra Puzzle [1] (or, for the |
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> more theoretically inclined, a satisfiability problem [2]) to find |
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> an acceptable combination of their USE flags. |
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Actually, REQUIRED_USE was introduced precisely to require users to |
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solve SAT without help... As you may recall, we *were* going to use |
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pkg_pretend for this sort of thing to give the users a friendly error |
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message, but this was replaced at the last minute with REQUIRED_USE to |
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force package manglers to reduce the quality of error message that's |
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produced. |
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So really we should just scrap REQUIRED_USE in EAPI 6, and migrate any |
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ebuilds currently using it to a sane alternative. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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