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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:21:20 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:30:31 +1000 |
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> Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I invite you to reproduce the problem yourself then make the |
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> > judgement. Using REQUIRED_USE like this makes the affected packages |
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> > unusable. |
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> Can't we all (except for the usual suspect) just agree that |
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> REQUIRED_USE was a mistake, and go back to pkg_pretend? The only |
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> justification for REQUIRED_USE was that it could allegedly be used in |
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> an automated fashion, and this hasn't happened. |
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+1 |
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or restrict it so that it is not yet another sat instance |
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i.e. something that really tells the PM how to automate the choice: |
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- 'qt5 -> !qt4' is rather straightforward to solve and tells the PM how |
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(note that it is not equivalent to 'qt4 -> !qt5') |
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- '^^ ( qt5 qt4 )' requires the PM to make a choice in order to |
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automate it |
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