On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:30:14 +0100 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| What about the use && has_version double check!? Apart from being
| ugly and still needed in some cases, it isn't slot safe. Why don't we
| let the package manager unset the use flags corresponding to stripped
| optional depedencies, so the use check is valid again?

Because the solution doesn't generalise. Consider:

  || ( a? ( a ) b ) a? ( a2 )

And because it makes things more rather than less complicated...

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Ciaran McCreesh
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