Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:46:06 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> This is all nice but i had one issue which was like this:
> i have package with use foo and package2 with use bar
> and package with foo depend on package2 with bar.
> 
> so this is not eapi2 incely handleable, what i would like to do is
> using arrows or something like that
> 
> package2[foo?->bar] or package2[foo->bar?]
> 
> now i handle it that way both packages have same useflag.

Uhm... What's wrong with "foo? ( package2[bar] )"?

The shortcut [use?] forms are there because practical experience showed
them being very widely used, but they're just that -- shortcuts for
widely used cases.

This lot should probably be in the new developer quiz, if anyone's
maintaining it these days.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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