On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 20:32, Ciaran McCreesh < [email protected]> wrote:
> In that case, why would you like to see VALID_USE as well as > pkg_pretend? Why not just use pkg_pretend, which is already in EAPI 4 > and which can do everything VALID_USE can do plus several useful things > that it can't? > > With pkg_pretend you can do VALID_USE using a simple eclass... > With pkg_pretend you can also implement USE deps, would you like to abolish them as well? This is data and should be treated as such. Using code to describe it is possible but suboptimal, if there's a suggestion that allows for describing this as data rather than with code then it is superior for all the reasons already stated. Dror Levin
