On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:21:20 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:30:31 +1000 > Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I invite you to reproduce the problem yourself then make the > > judgement. Using REQUIRED_USE like this makes the affected packages > > unusable. > > Can't we all (except for the usual suspect) just agree that > REQUIRED_USE was a mistake, and go back to pkg_pretend? The only > justification for REQUIRED_USE was that it could allegedly be used in > an automated fashion, and this hasn't happened. +1 or restrict it so that it is not yet another sat instance i.e. something that really tells the PM how to automate the choice: - 'qt5 -> !qt4' is rather straightforward to solve and tells the PM how (note that it is not equivalent to 'qt4 -> !qt5') - '^^ ( qt5 qt4 )' requires the PM to make a choice in order to automate it
