On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:17, Jason Wever wrote:
> Portage would have to be able to check to see how package A was compiled
> and force a re-compilation of package A to satisfy package B.  This also
> would violate the USE flags I've setup in make.conf (don't know if this
> happens already or not).
> 
> Just something to consider.  I'm not overly partial one way or another.

I believe this is on the list for portage .50 with things like
>=category/package-version[USE].