>>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> The opposing viewpoint was ferringb believing he could do "automatic
> dependency resolution" for a build server setup, without trying it
> and without an implementation, and that a human-readable pkg_pretend
> would somehow preclude that.

Hm, how about adding a new PM command like "required_use foo -bar"?
It would be used exclusively in pkg_pretend, and tell the PM to
suggest the necessary package.use changes to the user (or even update
them automatically with the appropriate --autounmask-* option).

REQUIRED_USE could be banned at the same time.

Ulrich

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