Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: package.use.stable.mask

["Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@gentoo.org>]

Zac Medico wrote:
> Maybe a syntax extension for IUSE would be a little nicer. For example:
> 
>   IUSE="unstable? ( foo bar )"
> 
> You could emulate this sort of extension in current EAPIs by simply
> adding IUSE="unstable" and then using that flag to conditionally
> disable things in *DEPEND, SRC_URI, and ebuild shell code.
> , 
That is another possibility but i tried to have something that is notdependant 
on IUSE.

Because when you have it depending on iuse you will have to alter the ebuild 
in future anyway, when the depending library will get OK.

It could be nice solution until we can launch support for the above file :]

Tom