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From: Zach Forrest <diatribe@××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild dependencies
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:36:40
Message-Id: 3C0D429E.6020301@shaw.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild dependencies by Geert Bevin
1 It all makes sense now. Thanks.
2
3 Geert Bevin wrote:
4
5 > If decss is set as USE flag, enforce the media-libs/libdvdcss dependancy
6 >
7 > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 22:25, Zach Forrest wrote:
8 >
9 >>After looking through some ebuild files, I have noticed that some of the
10 >>depends entries have a question mark after them. I'm not exatly sure
11 >>what this means, but it seems like an optional dependency, maybe for a
12 >>use flag?
13 >>
14 >>Example:
15 >>decss? ( media-libs/libdvdcss )
16 >>
17 >>If someone wouldn't mind giving me a quick how-to, I would really
18 >>appreciate it.
19 >>
20 >>Thanks.
21 >>
22 >>Zach
23 >>
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