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 E0AE61386F1 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 20:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D9EAE07FC; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 20:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (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 260C3E07ED for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 20:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id t79KSMGh020765; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:28:22 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id t79KSMR5016403; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:28:22 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id t79KSLHb016399; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:28:21 +0200 Message-ID: <21959.47077.385371.459100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:28:21 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: qa@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies In-Reply-To: <55C7AC24.2040503@gentoo.org> References: <55C7AC24.2040503@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller 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; boundary="pgp+signed+cxooEAZW5iLtsoe"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 790f26eb-bd27-4dfc-9e9d-f03514b3e9d3 X-Archives-Hash: 2fc43b8491dda91a8a98555a733886ad This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+cxooEAZW5iLtsoe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015, Sergey Popov wrote: > > In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended > USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5") > > That's most painless decision for both developers and users. Developers > do not need to maintain ugly dependencies like > DEPEND="qt4 ? ( > qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:5 ) > !qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:4 ) > ) > ... > " > and other mess. > I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly, and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it. Ulrich --pgp+signed+cxooEAZW5iLtsoe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVx7fQAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzVRYIAJYBl0+ofsu3tXrYuqCS1XNw fCTdZzdD9RVCVFKPzTlrNp4Ysa8e/R5z0/1y/e/r0/6IjNpzCcbSn57xFQFPfMsX /VCoT/XEJTtpjTqDdFIa8XkjQdNOcSILI074pFRE6z6GEvQh1deUC4WoHnspOgV5 VphY+cDgyecJc2MXhhw05mKILWAdg06mW8fcaB06S1M3ffStJ/GuzJXJi5Ke6ON9 6NUskpXudWhq9nFU00h3ciGn0D7HJ+jO2iR8UQpNLyrrKMcyz23h58TeYK6/JGKL Wi9lSTO80Bt0nGL4WLGzU5R2qYNnGiQ/ABDla9bfI/lWA9USmtOxfMXtYT8/hA0= =qBRa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+cxooEAZW5iLtsoe--