Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:56 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | You're a bit vague in the 'die in pkg_setup' bit; if you're 
> | referencing doing the changes now, and sticking a die in, I already  
> | explicitly stated the responsible party would need a wedgie if it was 
> | done; the "lets check for use flags on our deps in pkg_setup" is evil 
> | as hell, and *only* should be used when absolutely explicitly
> | required. iow, wait for use deps unless you've got some damn good
> | reason to fall back to the kludge while waiting.
> 
> For how many years have we been waiting for USE deps? I'd say that this
> discussion is pretty much pointless. In the distant future when we do
> get USE deps we'll no doubt have a whole different set of issues to
> figure out.
USE deps have been sitting in core rewrite's cvs since monday.
~harring

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