* dju` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07/04/23 23:45 +0200]: > # Generate a standard error message for missing USE flags > # in existing packages, and die.
I dislike that an emerge process dies when a use-flag is not set (okay, it will die otherwise later with the package that needs the dependency with that special use-flag built). It should be better to break with an appropriate message _before_ anything will be compiled. Let's say, directly after portage has calculated the dependencies. Your proposal looks like a quick fix for a feature portage can't handle yet. But your attached list of packages which already use that behaviour is already quite long and so you better should convince the portage-devs to include built-use-flags into the dependency calculation. Regards, Lars PS: I should add the disclaimer, that I did not ask any of the portage devs before I wrote these lines. I only checked http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml#doc_chap8 and could not find that this feature is already in development. PPS: I know that there are other package-managers out there. And no, I don't want to use these. portage still fits my needs best. -- Lars Weiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +49-171-1963258 Instant Messaging : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux PowerPC : Strategical Lead and Release Engineer Gentoo Infrastructure : CVS Administrator
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