From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D15F13877A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 486E0E1BD1; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40943E1BB8 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id ho1so1527727wib.16 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:46:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type; bh=1pZsjOHfCNnxBkTEWkAz8DDInGB/ON/lJKQZorbveg4=; b=sXy7v8vP2OxdKpzUm3rZcP49iyfeAz9Ri+13+pxJ447V2mDixq+p1VvOvWNZj08x2Q Lk33SO2ofB/aUfhxw9++kJdqWJ6N2EY6q7liqPazwxPgK8dR0Sno88ANBPz9evGFBfDL zfoGjCWxC2sTWCR40yLde4YgXiBV7Q9lvePV7l7fopyBcg65Yxe7dOpnCUOdpXFz0/3T 3+grse/dl5APFsh6A4GAkQU/Y6wSQ51MfETbwXTyRlX3oH25ERQCDfvCdmYJlnwVlW4F lsgZc1ma5lWJZSAkV7sTp4vPewa7alUjyOci8ZZUHJDWXDvjp6QUuIut8LQFU/BfQUjL 4W1g== X-Received: by 10.194.191.131 with SMTP id gy3mr25344782wjc.108.1406317613796; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc2-broo7-2-0-cust637.14-2.cable.virginm.net. [86.11.186.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n2sm27819573wjf.40.2014.07.25.12.46.53 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:46:49 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined Message-ID: <20140725204649.105e8641@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140725214402.7a65a988@gentp.lnet> References: <53D2A6C8.9060900@gentoo.org> <20140725210438.0703f164@gentp.lnet> <53D2AEC3.2080600@gentoo.org> <20140725214402.7a65a988@gentp.lnet> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/L6snKznfS9=Ops=KISq_38z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b6319e95-8689-4dcd-9de0-8940af23bb21 X-Archives-Hash: b00665ec4be29fe87448bb50f4dc2c58 --Sig_/L6snKznfS9=Ops=KISq_38z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200 Luis Ressel wrote: > Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps or the > REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but generally I think > that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite hard to understand for > unexperienced users -- much more so than the error generated by a > blocker dep. ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use pkg_pretend instead. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/L6snKznfS9=Ops=KISq_38z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPStCsACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGjZwCg1Rsu1A/+OrOq+yxttXyJ/tUq 03YAn0G/YQoZnwY5+b/+wC8/5arNshJF =LHC2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/L6snKznfS9=Ops=KISq_38z--