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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:05:51
Message-Id: 48D54987.6070200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2 by Alexis Ballier
1 Alexis Ballier kirjoitti:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 >> When EAPI 2 goes live built_with_use should probably die for most
5 >> cases.
6 >
7 > I don't understand here: you mean die like being removed or die like
8 > the die call in an ebuild? If I understood correctly the following it
9 > should be the latter.
10 >
11
12 Well we could go with either but if there are valid use cases we need to
13 go with the latter.
14
15 >> Are there valid use cases for built_with_use that are not
16 >> covered by the use deps in EAPI 2?
17 >
18 > I can think of checks like:
19 > - foo is a dep/rdep of bar
20 > - foo has a "plugin like" architecture
21 > - bar will "work" with minimal foo
22 > - most people will expect some features in bar that come with foo's
23 > plugins
24 > - we might want to display warnings for the most useful features
25 > - having useflags in bar for each of foo's useflags doesn't seem wise
26 >
27 >
28 > Ok that's not really a nice example but I can't think of anything
29 > better at the moment.
30 >
31 > By the way, how will the --missing option of built_with_use be handled
32 > by eapi 2?
33 >
34 > Alexis.
35
36 Why should it be any different than what it is now?
37
38 Regards,
39 Petteri

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