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>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> The flag also pulls in additional dependencies for some ebuilds. |
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>> So I wonder how it could be made unconditional? For example, |
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>> app-admin/eselect[vim-syntax] depends on app-vim/eselect-syntax |
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>> which in turn will pull in vim or gvim. Certainly not all users |
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>> would want that? |
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> I was unaware that the USE flag sometimes introduces additional |
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> dependencies. That being the case, we should certainly keep it. |
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A quick scan shows that about 100 ebuilds in the tree have such a |
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USE-conditional dependency. |
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>> Similarly, if we get rid of the vim-syntax flag, should we phase |
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>> out the emacs USE flag, too? |
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> Does this also pull in optional dependencies? |
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Yes, most of the time it does. |
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Also, last time I had a (non-Emacs) package unconditionally install |
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Emacs support, there were complaints by "religious" users who wanted |
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to keep their systems 100% Emacs free. ;-) |
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Ulrich |
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