On 08/12/2015 05:44 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On 08/12/15 22:38, William Hubbs wrote: > >> I always wondered why pkg_pretend never caught on. > > Because, in a way, it triggers at the wrong point of the merge. > > emerge -pv fnurk => dependencies look ok > > emerge fnurk => pkg_pretend bails out ... eh?! > > (This would be a little bit confusing, if not actively hostile, and > useflags + required_use are a lot more 'natural' to the emerge workflow)
The nice thing about REQUIRED_USE is that it is math expression, and math is a sort of universal language. It leads to uniform error messages. You can imagine that pkg_pretend messages will tend to be much less uniform! >> I to can see the advantage of it over REQUIRED_USE; it would allow the >> package maintainer to give specific error messages about why use flag >> combinations are invalid for a package. > > And now someone will say "annotations". Sigh. Well, nothing stops people from using pkg_pretend to create fancy error messages now! > > > have fun, > > Patrick > > -- Thanks, Zac
