On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 00:18:07 +0200
Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the
> > "runtime-switchable USE flags" proposal:
> >
> >   https://gist.github.com/2945569
> 
> runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It sounds
> like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
> I think SDEPEND is a much simpler approach to the issue, why
> introducing a new kind of USE flags to address what really belongs to
> *DEPEND?

Because otherwise you can't use USE flags. The rationale is there.


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Michał Górny