On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:38:10PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> >I can't find the bug right now, but this did pop up where the client was
> >a GUI app, and they wanted to get away from needing all the dependencies
> >it pulled in that way.
> Would controlling building of the client via a flag such as 'X' or 'gtk' 
> be inappropriate in that scenario?
If X or gtk were relevant to the client, then yes. Better be ready for
USE flag for every GUI toolkit then (yuck).

I predict that we would then see people complaining they need a hundred
and one USE flags to reliably turn off the clients, or that they need to
actually read the ebuild to figure out exactly how to turn the client
off.

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