On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Martin Vaeth <va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > I was not suggesting inlining the list into the dependency but > only inlining the USE-flag into the (single) perl ebuild. > Currently if I have a package which needs e.g. Term-ANSI-Color, > but not in a particular version, if I do not want to install an > unnecessary duplicate version, I must inline a dependency like > || ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.14 virtual/perl-Term-ANSIColor ) > and possibly change this if perl-5.20 does no longer contain > perl-Term-ANSIColor.
Isn't that exactly what the virtual should do?
