From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2Tq5-0001PL-BX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:08:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79D7A6I017286; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:07:10 GMT Received: from aei-tech.com (host-216-153-235-25.ind.choiceone.net [216.153.235.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79D5OKg004584 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:05:24 GMT Received: (qmail 10844 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2005 08:05:52 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.153?) (192.168.2.153) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 9 Aug 2005 08:05:52 -0500 From: Caleb Tennis Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:03:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <42EE8C03.3040904@gentoo.org> <200508090736.31911.caleb@gentoo.org> <20050809124337.GH21770@nightcrawler> In-Reply-To: <20050809124337.GH21770@nightcrawler> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508090803.33912.caleb@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c95b5009-0499-4543-9134-24be7ff7b86e X-Archives-Hash: 471c5acda2c398206a0b5303a0840d1b > Yep, you're a heretic. :) > How would you propose that DEPEND information make it's way up the > portage stack, and ultimately affects the depgraph? > > What you're suggesting is effectively "suggested" deps, which are a > bit backwards considering we have "optional" deps, the 8 flags you > dislike :) Let me follow up with that I'm all for adding the use flags IF other packages would make use of them as well. I just really hate adding 8 local use flags for this pretty heavily used package that won't add much utility to anything else and will add a bit of headache to making sure Qt is installed with all of the bells and whistles the end user wants. :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list