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On 29/05/13 11:43 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> I think, it'll be nice to have a way to suggest some packages to
> user, when (s)he installs something. For now it is only way to do
> that by something like:
>
> pkg_postinst() { if ! has_version dev-lua/iluajit; then einfo
> "You'd probably want to install dev-lua/iluajit to"; ewarn "get
> fully functional interactive shell for LuaJIT"; fi if has_version
> app-editors/emacs || has_version app-editors/xemacs; then einfo
> "You'd probably want to install app-emacs/lua-mode to"; ewarn "get
> Lua completion in emacs."; fi }
>
> but some people find that way annoying and some devs also thinks it
> is bad way. Another way (use USEflags-related PDEPs — is a bad way
> too).
>
> Any thoughts? :)
>
There are many thoughts, iirc there was at least one 100+ long thread
in august/september 2012. Search for "SDEPEND" and "IUSE_RUNTIME" in
the mailing list logs.
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