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From: "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:04:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0901040734o32913fa0j581f89d5b5d031b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090104145426.30527441@terra.solaris>

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> regarding USE dependencies what is the correct way if a package needs
> one out of two USE flags?
>
> || ( cat-egory/package[foo] cat-egory/package[bar] )
>

That's the way right now as per portage EAPI=2 doc[1]

> or is there something else?

A short-cut for this would be similar in scope to
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238887

/me thinks cat-egory/pkg[use1|use2] would be a nice way :)

1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi-2-draft

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-04 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04 13:54 [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies Christian Faulhammer
2009-01-04 15:34 ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2009-01-04 15:46   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-01-04 15:56     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-01-04 16:04     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:08       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-01-04 16:48         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:58           ` David Leverton
2009-01-05  8:31             ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-05  8:40               ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:59           ` Ciaran McCreesh

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