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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Dependency calculation turning on USE flags?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:52:50
Message-Id: 4E5048B9.3010406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Dependency calculation turning on USE flags? by Kent Fredric
1 On 08/20/2011 03:22 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On 21 August 2011 08:10, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 >>
5 >> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/372513
6 >>
7 >
8 > ^ tldr version for everyone else.
9 >
10 > This is due to the || condition in virtual/fortran
11 >
12 > || ( sys-devel/gcc[fortran,openmp?] sys-devel/gcc-apple[fortran,openmp?]
13 > dev-lang/ifc dev-lang/ekopath-bin )
14 >
15 > Where gcc[fortran] takes precedence over ifc.
16
17 The reason that portage chooses ifc when USE=fortran is disabled is that
18 this kind of behavior is sometimes desirable. It's discussed in bug 278729:
19
20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278729
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac