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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: Felipe Ghellar <fghellar2@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE variable clarification
Date: 08 Jan 2003 21:11:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxxptr7wgdy.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1C818D.8090206@yahoo.com.br>

Felipe Ghellar <fghellar2@yahoo.com.br> writes:

  (please quote properly)

> Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > isn't the IUSE-variable really redundant?  shouldn't portage be
> > able to get the USE-flags directly from the ebuilds
> > DEPEND-statement without adding an IUSE-kludge?
> 
> Only use flags that require an additional package to be installed
> are listed in DEPEND/RDEPEND, and some do not (e.g. build, sse).

  true enough, but do any of these flags give you any clues as to
  anything that needs to be rebuilt?

-- 
Terje

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 14:31 [gentoo-dev] IUSE variable clarification Burton Samograd
2003-01-08 14:59 ` Maik Schreiber
2003-01-09 16:44   ` Burton Samograd
2003-01-09 17:00     ` [gentoo-dev] " Wilbert Berendsen
2003-01-09 17:05       ` Maik Schreiber
2003-01-09 17:06       ` Yannick Koehler
2003-01-09 17:03     ` [gentoo-dev] " Maik Schreiber
2003-01-08 15:04 ` Nick Jones
2003-01-08 19:18   ` Terje Kvernes
2003-01-08 19:52     ` Felipe Ghellar
2003-01-08 20:11       ` Terje Kvernes [this message]
2003-01-09 15:42     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-09 21:05       ` Bob Phan
2003-01-09 22:35         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-10 12:28           ` Bob Phan

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