Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:13:55
Message-Id: 200608071911.46130.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided by Edward Catmur
1 Checking for a package that isn't either a direct or indirect dependency is
2 plain wrong. package.provided is not supported - it's the users fault, if he
3 insists to sidestep Portage. There is no valid case for your construct. With
4 regards to QA, it wouldn't be wrong to have a better solution, but given that
5 built_with_use() is itself only a workaroud for still not having use
6 dependencies, it's a bit pointless.
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9 Carsten

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