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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 06:38:33
Message-Id: CAB9SyzTgjY38b4y8YKon0cwLiDruHkQDrW1ACQ6041dgRQASfA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 4 August 2015 at 22:56, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
2 > Are there any cases where things actually break if a package has both
3 > flags enabled? IE, is three a package with IUSE="qt4 qt5" that when
4 > both flags are enabled would build for qt5 only, and happens to be a
5 > dependency atom of something else that needs it to have qt4 support?
6 > That to me is the only case where a REQUIRED_USE needs to be set on a
7 > package.
8
9 I'm not aware we have such a package, but I may be overlooking
10 something. Either way, I think it is a dangerous road to go down that
11 way.
12
13 --
14 Cheers,
15
16 Ben | yngwin
17 Gentoo developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>