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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined | ||
| Date: | Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:25:16 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20140725222504.5a5433b8@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined by Ian Stakenvicius |
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| 1 | On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:13:18 -0400 |
| 2 | Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > REQUIRED_USE came first, pkg_pretend came later, iirc. In theory, |
| 4 | > REQUIRED_USE could have made a nice interactive way to resolve use |
| 5 | > conflicts, it just never did. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Nope. pkg_pretend came first, and had an implemented and user-tested |
| 8 | prototype. REQUIRED_USE was shoehorned in at the last minute without an |
| 9 | implementation. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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