On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:57:06 +0100 Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:
> Tom Wijsman wrote: > > I'm not sure if making broken (or experimental) things more easily > > available or a suggestion would be a good idea; people already have > > enough trouble as it is, adding more doesn't seem to be the right > > way. > > It's not about broken/experimental, it's about the logical > consequences of an explicit action taken by the user. > > The user must get feedback based on what they said that they wanted > to do, not based on what is experimental. > > Mentioning that something is experimental is an optional bonus, but > assuming that the user already knows that this is the case is OK too. The * in the USE flag list marks this. > portage should say, with as similar wording as possible: > > "If you want to emerge libXt with those USE flags then you'll also > have to set those same USE flags for libYt and libZt because libXt > DEPENDs on them." > > Bonus points: > > "Would you like me to set those USE flags for libYt and libZt for > you? [Y/n]" Which part of this warns the user that the user is about to run into something broken / experimental? We need to add that too, because it is not clear from the output that you suggest. And if we add that as well, it gets to be quite long; how would we condense that? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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