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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:38:21 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > The opposing viewpoint was ferringb believing he could do "automatic |
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> > dependency resolution" for a build server setup, without trying it |
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> > and without an implementation, and that a human-readable pkg_pretend |
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> > would somehow preclude that. |
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> Hm, how about adding a new PM command like "required_use foo -bar"? |
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> It would be used exclusively in pkg_pretend, and tell the PM to |
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> suggest the necessary package.use changes to the user (or even update |
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> them automatically with the appropriate --autounmask-* option). |
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> REQUIRED_USE could be banned at the same time. |
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Why add support for a hypothetical package mangler feature that doesn't |
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exist and that isn't necessary in practice? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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