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

["Julien Allanos \(dju`\)" <dju@gentoo.org>]

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Lars Weiler a écrit :
> * dju` <dju@gentoo.org> [07/04/23 23:45 +0200]:
>> # Generate a standard error message for missing USE flags
>> # in existing packages, and die.
> 
> I dislike that an emerge process dies when a use-flag is not
> set (okay, it will die otherwise later with the package that
> needs the dependency with that special use-flag built).  It
> should be better to break with an appropriate message
> _before_ anything will be compiled.  Let's say, directly
> after portage has calculated the dependencies.
> 
> 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.

Yes it's a quick fix, just as built_with_use() is. But before Portage
know how to handle USE deps, is it worth adding built_with_use_die() to
eutils.eclass and possibly fixing a lot of ebuilds ?
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