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On 25/07/14 03:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200 Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> |
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>> Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps or |
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>> the REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but generally |
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>> I think that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite hard to |
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>> understand for unexperienced users -- much more so than the error |
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>> generated by a blocker dep. |
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> ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use |
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> pkg_pretend instead. |
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Yep, could do it that way instead. I'm not tied to any particular |
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implementation. |
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Back to the concept, though -- thoughts? Is it worth the work? |
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Should it be avoided for whatever reason? Will it just confuse |
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end-users? Am I suggesting a fix for a problem we don't really have? |
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