On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:44:58 +0800
Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 08/12/15 22:38, William Hubbs wrote:
> > I always wondered why pkg_pretend never caught on.
> 
> Because, in a way, it triggers at the wrong point of the merge.
> 
> emerge -pv fnurk => dependencies look ok
> 
> emerge fnurk => pkg_pretend bails out ... eh?!
> 
> (This would be a little bit confusing, if not actively hostile, and
> useflags + required_use are a lot more 'natural' to the emerge
> workflow)

Uh, the point of the 'pretend' bit in the name is that it *is* run when
you do emerge -p.

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Ciaran McCreesh