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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:30:14 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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| What about the use && has_version double check!? Apart from being |
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| ugly and still needed in some cases, it isn't slot safe. Why don't we |
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| let the package manager unset the use flags corresponding to stripped |
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| optional depedencies, so the use check is valid again? |
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Because the solution doesn't generalise. Consider: |
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|| ( a? ( a ) b ) a? ( a2 ) |
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And because it makes things more rather than less complicated... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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