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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
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 19:47:00
Message-Id: 20140725204649.105e8641@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined by Luis Ressel
1 On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200
2 Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> wrote:
3 > Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps or the
4 > REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but generally I think
5 > that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite hard to understand for
6 > unexperienced users -- much more so than the error generated by a
7 > blocker dep.
8
9 ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use pkg_pretend
10 instead.
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh

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