From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org,
pms-bugs@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:48:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19379.6773.901690.630124@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331092035.GA11663@hrair>
>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Brian Harring wrote:
> Roughly, VALID_USE is a list of constraints stating what the allowed
> use flag combinations are for this pkg. If you think of normal
> depdencies (I must have openssl and python merged prior), it's the
> same machinery.
Maybe we should first discuss if we want to drop the following
rule [1] which your proposal seems to contradict:
| Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting USE flags for
| functionality. Checking for them and returning an error is not a
| viable solution. Instead, you must pick one of the USE flags in
| conflict to favour.
Ulrich
[1] <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 9:20 [gentoo-council] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative Brian Harring
2010-03-31 9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2010-03-31 10:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 10:16 ` Alistair Bush
2010-03-31 10:57 ` Brian Harring
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