Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

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: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:36
Message-Id: 20140729120622.496a651f@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined by James Potts
1 On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:23:04 -0500
2 James Potts <arek75@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Paludis has an elegant solution for this situation (-F/-A), but afaik
4 > portage doesn't.
5
6 I'd not call -F / -A elegant... It's a nasty trick that we only added
7 because || dependencies are such a pain. They shouldn't be necessary.
8
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10 Ciaran McCreesh

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