Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:59:59
Message-Id: 6393608.C9sB4nhYN1@nazgul
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled? by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 On Tuesday 28 June 2011 14:52:22 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag
5 > player that can not be disabled.
6 >
7 > #required by amarok (argument)
8 > =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player
9 >
10 > If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What
11 > good is a switch that can not be toggled?
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14 amarok and amarok-utils are now the same ebuild. You can do one or the
15 other.
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17 You can disable the player flag, but then you must enable the utils
18 flag which means you want to build the utilities like
19 collectionscanner.
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23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com