Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in mail-filter/dspam: ChangeLog dspam-3.8.0-r7.ebuild

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 10:43 Mon 01 Oct     , Alin Năstac wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > It's better to do something smart than to force interactivity. In this 
> > case, you as the maintainer would decide whether this USE combo meant 
> > the user wanted virtual-users (if so, forcibly enable one of mysql or 
> > postgres), or whether the user definitely did not want to pull in a 
> > database (if so, force off virtual-users).
> >   
> I cannot force mysql or postgres dependency just because user enabled
> virtual-users flag.
> IMO this case would definitely qualify for a pkg_setup die because
> virtual-users is a local useflag. By selecting virtual-users without
> enabling mysql or postgres storage backend, the user proved to be
> clueless and ebuild should provide the much needed clue.

One way to proceed is to not have both mysql and postgres as USE flags. 
Have one as a flag, and have negation of that flag mean to use the 
other. Does that make sense for this package, or can they both 
reasonably be used at the same time?

I strongly discourage dying here; do something smart and log a warning 
to the user about it.

Thanks,
Donnie
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