On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:38:21 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>> 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.
Why add support for a hypothetical package mangler feature that doesn't exist and that isn't necessary in practice? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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