On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > On Monday 08 August 2005 08:14 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > If you could bring up some specific examples, we could discuss them. > > Sure. Qt has optional support for xkb, tablet, fontconfig, xrender, xrandr, > xcursor, xinerama (already a use flag), xshape, and xsm. > > I'd really hate to add 8 more use flags for those things. I find it fairly > hard to believe that a user would want to, for example, configre xrender and > xcursor but not xrandr. > > My *thought* here is why not let the Qt ebuild rely on the base packages of > X, > and if these other packages are also installed ahead of time, then configure > support for them as well, but don't make them use flag deps. > > Something like: > > if xcursor is installed > turn on xcursor support > DEPEND+=xcursor > fi > > I'm sure someone will cast me as a heretic, but I think this is much more > elegant than 8 more use flags. Yep, you're a heretic. :) How would you propose that DEPEND information make it's way up the portage stack, and ultimately affects the depgraph?
What you're suggesting is effectively "suggested" deps, which are a bit backwards considering we have "optional" deps, the 8 flags you dislike :) ~harring
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