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 67F0B13877A for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9919E0912; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E25EAE08D9 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id f8so762710wiw.6 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:06:29 -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=0GHfl9BkFLeP3VChG8Us7JtLYZdez9oYh47tFpzJ/A0=; b=Uixa9BBcZUhUTQUu3TgtAWo7EHlqhc0gciV4AHuaL9U8iVv6uPGbv9gKLjlUDIL7Ql E38g5Yz/S/vp1edtk4lGNmBC82PvPSZIFbLAf4onVJj6YwALfn0LZeMZziQRScfjB5mI wpTKZxQ0/6FjBpdCzFdqrIR1al4goxKPIK3C4z5qOqRSY3i/Ysg54DH23V3VjfiQC+Dy 95HZNlGTtuza64iTkL3XpFUuOmPXv57A3tD+8u7neJbDWBRS7KHt3wRVvoqcKiYa7U5c hE4C8Y9srKwOc/5x/xf75kJ3H0UHeTBel2qcYK+hhoIu+v13d53gsFtT71qaOY//F/Uv +v2Q== X-Received: by 10.194.71.132 with SMTP id v4mr2138975wju.102.1406631989143; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:06:29 -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 i12sm56707643wjr.32.2014.07.29.04.06.28 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:06:22 +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: <20140729120622.496a651f@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <53D2A6C8.9060900@gentoo.org> <20140728132118.0c421aeb@pomiot.lan> <53D6822F.6090507@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_/lRKTR6oz0Odxv6BS1MKyzhe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a98b27e1-47aa-42ee-b60f-c74cfa14f0c6 X-Archives-Hash: cd325803819fa4bc43507a0caa039376 --Sig_/lRKTR6oz0Odxv6BS1MKyzhe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:23:04 -0500 James Potts wrote: > Paludis has an elegant solution for this situation (-F/-A), but afaik > portage doesn't. I'd not call -F / -A elegant... It's a nasty trick that we only added because || dependencies are such a pain. They shouldn't be necessary. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/lRKTR6oz0Odxv6BS1MKyzhe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPXgDAACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFIuQCgy0gUwPnOii+J6kx9N94RYsI4 Qp0AoLWglANkMnXvbe3nf6L9RLpPetjp =alep -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lRKTR6oz0Odxv6BS1MKyzhe--