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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:35:15
Message-Id: mqcq0s$fk0$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Sergey Popov
1 On 11/08/15 20:17, Sergey Popov wrote:
2 > 09.08.2015 23:28, Ulrich Mueller пишет:
3 >> I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly,
4 >> and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it.
5 >
6 > So, you prefer to make ugly mess of deps here like i posted before or
7 > introduce some really unneded USE-flag like 'gui', 'qt', etc. to make
8 > users even more confused?
9 >
10 > Really, look at man-db ebuild. Especially on berkdb and gdbm USE flags.
11 > And dependency string like this:
12 >
13 > !berkdb? ( !gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) )
14 >
15 > One sentence: "WHAT THE HELL?"
16 >
17 > Imagine that it would be dozen of flags. Is it fun to mess with deps
18 > like this for you?
19
20 Shall we ban this too?
21
22 ffmpeg? (
23 libav? ( media-video/libav:= )
24 !libav? ( media-video/ffmpeg:0= )
25 )

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>