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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:22:14
Message-Id: 44D3E446.4010507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368) by Brian Harring
1 > Since you're sliding this in, why not slide it in using use dep
2 > syntax?
3 >
4 > No, not going to fight over this not being in package.mask, what I'm
5 > saying is this _is_ masking of a use dep atom, just use use dep syntax
6 > in the file instead.
7 >
8 > If y'all get use deps, it'll be a bit simpler for folks to support
9 > then the existing crappy format used imo.
10 >
11 > Plus, parsing it's easy.
12 > ~harring
13
14 Because as you've noted a thousand times, use deps are hard, and this is
15 easy and inevasive.
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368) Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>