Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ?

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Lars Weiler wrote:
> Your proposal looks like a quick fix for a feature portage
> can't handle yet.  But your attached list of packages which
> already use that behaviour is already quite long and so you
> better should convince the portage-devs to include
> built-use-flags into the dependency calculation.

I'm currently designing a new dependency resolver and support for
USE deps [1] is one of the features that it will include.  I hope to
have something usable within the next 1 or 2 months.

> 
> Regards, Lars
> 
> PS: I should add the disclaimer, that I did not ask any of
> the portage devs before I wrote these lines.  I only checked
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml#doc_chap8
> and could not find that this feature is already in
> development.

Now I've added "New dependency resolver" to the list of tasks there,
along with references to bugs 144480 [2] and 155723 [3] which track
many of the issues that it will solve.

Zac

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144480
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155723
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