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 956581388BF for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 02:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDF1321C00A; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 02:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [212.116.89.98]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89E2921C001 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 02:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2815 invoked by uid 501); 7 Jan 2016 02:42:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20160107024256.2814.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 03:42:56 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=desktop-file request Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160106162338.1e75682e@localhost> <568D6423.4040405@gentoo.org> <20160106194808.241d549d@localhost> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 1215a121-157f-49cf-ac8b-4e2aaf98e306 X-Archives-Hash: 4a48ddebb89261e76b03973742f82ba2 Rich Freeman wrote: > I'm not sure it is really worth trying to control this via a USE flag > for such a light dependency. I don't care how light dependencies are - I want to be able to choose every single one that is optional. That is Gentoo's killer feature, and I am thoroughly disappointed whenever I come across a dependency which is not absolutely neccessary but hard in ebuild. It's rare, but happens. :( I consider it a bug. I still have to file the last one I found. //Peter