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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:56 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | You're a bit vague in the 'die in pkg_setup' bit; if you're |
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> | referencing doing the changes now, and sticking a die in, I already |
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> | explicitly stated the responsible party would need a wedgie if it was |
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> | done; the "lets check for use flags on our deps in pkg_setup" is evil |
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> | as hell, and *only* should be used when absolutely explicitly |
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> | required. iow, wait for use deps unless you've got some damn good |
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> | reason to fall back to the kludge while waiting. |
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> |
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> For how many years have we been waiting for USE deps? I'd say that this |
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> discussion is pretty much pointless. In the distant future when we do |
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> get USE deps we'll no doubt have a whole different set of issues to |
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> figure out. |
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USE deps have been sitting in core rewrite's cvs since monday. |
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~harring |
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