Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:57:39
Message-Id: 44D65775.3010806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided by Paul Bredbury
1 Paul Bredbury wrote:
2 > But it is not an error. The answer is known to be False, through the
3 > application of logic.
4
5 No. Let's get really sophisticated and do the 'application of logic' step.
6
7 There is a function built_with_use().
8 That function reports whether something was built with or without a specific USE
9 flag.
10 The sentence above includes the fragment 'was built with or without'.
11 So it was built.
12 Uh, oh, but it wasn't built!!?!?
13 -> Error
14
15 Really.
16
17 Go find a mathematician and discuss this matter with him. Tell him what you told
18 me, and he will slap you with a large frying pan.
19
20 --
21 Kind Regards,
22
23 Simon Stelling
24 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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