On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:37:19 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev <[email protected]> wrote: > That suggests that the EAPI ought to define a second category of > USE_EXPAND flags, one that has a different treatment of (+)/(-). > > Something like the following: > > A dependency on $foo[linguas_bar(+)] would be considered satisfied by > an ebuild X matching $foo iff: > 1. X has linguas_bar in IUSE and enabled; or > 2. X does not have linguas_bar in IUSE, but there exists an ebuild Y > (which may or may not equal X) matching $foo such that Y has at least > one linguas_* flag in IUSE.
That's sensitive to old versions ebuilds being removed from the tree, so it's utterly unworkable. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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