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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:41:59 +0300 |
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> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Currently Portage does not work with has_version cat/pkg[use=]. I |
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>> filed a bug about this: |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284715 |
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>> |
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>> Portage current behavior: |
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>> 17:38 <@zmedico> Betelgeuse: quick test seems to show always true if |
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>> it's in IUSE |
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>> I see a couple course of possible actions: |
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>> 1. Current PMS already implies this behavior and Portage is buggy. |
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>> Let's document this explicitly for EAPI 3 and have Portage fixed so |
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>> using EAPI 3 makes sure this syntax works. |
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> |
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> The wording is "The flag must be enabled if the flag is enabled for the |
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> package with the dependency, or disabled otherwise.". |
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> The question then is whether that applies only to *DEPEND, or whether |
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> it's to anywhere where there's a "package with the dependency". Given |
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> that the section that specifies it isn't limited to *DEPEND, but |
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> describes dependency specifications in general, I'd say that PMS |
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> requires it to be supported. |
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> Having said that, it's pretty horrible, and unless there's a good use |
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> case for such a feature, I'd not be opposed to shoving in a retroactive |
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> ban on it... |
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tove was trying to use it for perl: |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/perl-overlay.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a4be047e0ad2f13a7eeab9a5295557023ef2d62 |
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