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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Patch problem
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:49:10
Message-Id: 4D6FC677.1060607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Patch problem by Michael
1 On 03/03/2011 08:27 AM, Michael wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm playing around with writing a patch to allow emerge to automatically
5 > resolve use deps.
6 >
7 > The basics appear to be working:
8 >
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.3-r1 USE="dbus exceptions pch* (-
11 > aqua) -debug -kde*" 0 kB [0]
12 > [ebuild N ] app-misc/mytest-1.0.0 USE="kde" 0 kB [1]
13 >
14 > however, not quite:
15 >
16 > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
17 > #required by =app-misc/mytest-1.0.0, required by mytest (argument)
18 > =x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.3-r1 pch
19 >
20 >
21 > Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
22 >
23 >
24 > -Michael
25
26 It seems like you wouldn't have to modify the code that your patch
27 modifies, since essentially what you want is --autounmask except that
28 you want to skip the part about editing config files. Also note that
29 there is an existing feature request to edit config files automatically:
30
31 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345775
32 --
33 Thanks,
34 Zac

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