On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:50:08 -0500 solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:23 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:13:02 -0500 solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | The autouse itself is not a bad feature or idea if it were used
| > | properly. Problem is that it's not been used properly.
| > 
| > No, it's bad. It's another thing that makes correct dependency
| > resolution impossible.
| 
| If your going to contradict somebody why don't you give more detail
| and less opinion.

*shrug* It's pretty obvious. You probably already know this, but for
the benefit of those who really haven't thought about it rather than
those who just want to go around trolling... When a package that
toggles a USE flag gets installed, the dep resolver has to go back and
regenerate the deplist with that USE flag changed. However, this can
cause the package that would have enabled the USE flag to no longer be
installed.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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