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 E16D613877A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9088BE1B8F; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 873B7E1B73 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id k14so4754387wgh.32 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:25:10 -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=nX1+ySHd5YFHkDaDzafnGWPF+DQW22Wa9+U/4Mxw0SM=; b=luy4QHIx1mj7eyWApD8f2gWZQD2jRIS/obbdXkhv9K6e8wRFFrLNAzcYb49IXAFm8S 0AgjVZ8ZjWVTSWlQVl4mLBJn7Cwr3QDfH0Az6OoeCW+U8xrkeJj2n3HlKskT/CkDA6Cn tNY88S93nuh8YYzbh99gs2OxbIKRj7WdK2gLBzSCiZ+COH5UY3yQ5hU1iSwX5pET1znt XQuEAXNx2X4DRM5/NvwQ2cqXeeWcKPvWUouwDWVVW6I65FqJvgZQp6j0FvyxE9b7rJoH i+QqgOCbhZyQgmoLHAlDCvmCcG+OBda99h7ksrmaALHfsN/C+34GZmKPoQABLvKtDpQE Ck1g== X-Received: by 10.194.71.12 with SMTP id q12mr25740013wju.5.1406323510265; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:25:10 -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 kr5sm28478495wjc.27.2014.07.25.14.25.09 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:25:04 +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: <20140725222504.5a5433b8@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <53D2C86E.8070209@gentoo.org> References: <53D2A6C8.9060900@gentoo.org> <20140725210438.0703f164@gentp.lnet> <53D2AEC3.2080600@gentoo.org> <20140725214402.7a65a988@gentp.lnet> <20140725204649.105e8641@googlemail.com> <1406317889.20388.25.camel@gentoo.org> <53D2B60D.3040402@gentoo.org> <1406319173.20388.27.camel@gentoo.org> <53D2C86E.8070209@gentoo.org> 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_/=KTI3nPJseT3cUJi.EEp7Tc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9745cfbd-a13f-425d-a0d1-4db2a550e950 X-Archives-Hash: a16feb0731d460ccc50b6edf3950beec --Sig_/=KTI3nPJseT3cUJi.EEp7Tc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:13:18 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > REQUIRED_USE came first, pkg_pretend came later, iirc. In theory, > REQUIRED_USE could have made a nice interactive way to resolve use > conflicts, it just never did. Nope. pkg_pretend came first, and had an implemented and user-tested prototype. REQUIRED_USE was shoehorned in at the last minute without an implementation. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/=KTI3nPJseT3cUJi.EEp7Tc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPSyzMACgkQ96zL6DUtXhH+owCgpTiGI8SVn54ePF93oHS9lqyq oP0AoLnHfJR3NDH6aLZgM/WjjLOA2vVE =hioc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=KTI3nPJseT3cUJi.EEp7Tc--