Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:56:15
Message-Id: 20090104155603.1bcee38f@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:46:06 +0100
2 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
3 > This is all nice but i had one issue which was like this:
4 > i have package with use foo and package2 with use bar
5 > and package with foo depend on package2 with bar.
6 >
7 > so this is not eapi2 incely handleable, what i would like to do is
8 > using arrows or something like that
9 >
10 > package2[foo?->bar] or package2[foo->bar?]
11 >
12 > now i handle it that way both packages have same useflag.
13
14 Uhm... What's wrong with "foo? ( package2[bar] )"?
15
16 The shortcut [use?] forms are there because practical experience showed
17 them being very widely used, but they're just that -- shortcuts for
18 widely used cases.
19
20 This lot should probably be in the new developer quiz, if anyone's
21 maintaining it these days.
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh

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