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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:28:03
Message-Id: 44B77EB1.6020508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk's X use flag by Michael Cummings
1 Michael Cummings wrote:
2 >>> I hate it when this happens.
3 >>> I have an ebuild inherits perl-app. It pulls in minimal and perl
4 >>> USE-flags. kinda misleading.
5 >>>
6 >>> Tuan
7 >
8 > The perl use flag is to avoid make perl a dep for every package that
9 > inherits the eclass even if perl isn't in your personal USE flags.
10
11 Ditto for virtualx eclass. I kinda don't see an issue here.
12
13 There are better candidates for revamp, such as debug.eclass which
14 injects bogus debug use flags into IUSE of ebuilds that don't support
15 any debug at all (such as opera). Every ebuild that inherits
16 gnome2.eclass has this problem, fex.
17
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21
22 Jakub Moc
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