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On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:34 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> It still doesn't make sense to me. GTK is just as much a dependency of |
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> Gnome, as much X is a dependency of GTK (or Gnome for that matter). |
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> Anyway, the way I imagine things is that people would use these groups |
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> to be able to quickly specify their use flags from scratch. And the use |
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> I imagine being the most obvious is: |
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> USE="-* @GNOME". |
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> That, however, is not really gonna do it, if X is not in @GNOME. |
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USE=X is not a requirement for Gnome. Honestly, neither is USE=gtk or |
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USE=gtk2. In fact, even USE=gnome isn't a requirement for Gnome. USE |
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flags enable *optional* dependencies, not the real dependencies. That |
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means that the dependency tree really has ZERO to do with USE flag |
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grouping. Instead the USE flags should be grouped according to |
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relationship, rather than dependency. At least, that's how I'm gauging |
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this. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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