From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Fatih Tümen" <fthtmn+gentoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:12:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010291012.16717.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFGepb8tHYwtLorpknD0yE-JWXod3gbZJ7_ztP@mail.gmail.com>
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:58 on Friday 29 October 2010, Fatih Tümen
did opine thusly:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 21:21, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0300, Fatih Tümen wrote:
> >> I agree putting -hal is not a good idea unless you dare to break the
> >> packages that need hal. But I think there is a third option here
> >
> > Packages that need hal won't have a hal use flag.
>
> True, not every package that needs hal has hal use flag. I should have
> made clear that my implication was those which have (optional)
> dependency on hal && (thus) has hal flag. For packages that need hal
> it doesn't matter whether you have -hal in your make.conf anyway, does
> it?
Correct.
Something that requires hal will (should?) have it as an unconditional DEPEND.
USE is only for optional features.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-29 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 21:06 [gentoo-user] scrapping hal Harry Putnam
2010-10-27 21:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-27 21:31 ` Paul Hartman
2010-10-27 21:35 ` Paul Hartman
2010-10-28 3:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-10-28 5:46 ` Paul Colquhoun
2010-10-30 14:40 ` Harry Putnam
2010-10-28 1:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2010-10-28 3:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-10-28 3:22 ` Harry Putnam
2010-10-28 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-28 15:11 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-28 18:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-10-29 7:58 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-29 8:12 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-10-28 16:56 ` Philip Webb
2010-10-28 3:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-10-28 9:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-10-28 10:46 ` Dale
2010-10-28 12:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-10-28 12:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-28 14:36 ` Dale
2010-10-28 14:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-28 15:25 ` Dale
2010-10-28 16:24 ` Paul Hartman
2010-10-28 15:15 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-10-28 20:13 ` Alex Schuster
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