On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 00:07:38 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:03:25 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It
> > > sounds like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
> > 
> > All suggested deps are not equal, so USE flags give you the ability
> > to pick and choose the ones that you want.
> 
> So does --take / --ignore with suggested dependencies, with the added
> advantage that suggested packages don't end up being brought in
> without user request just because a user has a particular use flag
> enabled globally.

Yes because runtime SSL support is *so much* different than build-time
one.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny