On 01/20/2015 09:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:41:21 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Seriously? You expect users to figure out [1] what combinations of >> USE flags will work for such an ebuild? > > Why don't we just admit that Brian was horribly wrong, scrap > REQUIRED_USE in the next EAPI, and go back to the sensible, > tried-and-tested way of doing it that I proposed to begin with?
Regardless of whether or not (or how) we choose to apply REQUIRED_USE to various cases, I think we should keep REQUIRED_USE around, since having a machine-readable representation of these constraints can potentially be extremely useful to dependency resolvers. -- Thanks, Zac
