-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/14 03:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200 Luis Ressel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps or >> the REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but generally >> I think that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite hard to >> understand for unexperienced users -- much more so than the error >> generated by a blocker dep. > > ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use > pkg_pretend instead. >
Yep, could do it that way instead. I'm not tied to any particular implementation. Back to the concept, though -- thoughts? Is it worth the work? Should it be avoided for whatever reason? Will it just confuse end-users? Am I suggesting a fix for a problem we don't really have? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlPStOIACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCZrwD+J7qqH5a1YVsFoIt+UmT9rOLq TSkd6ai7Eum0MEo6CKsA/3Gsuu9O16rua/LZxeW3i3+qBFufIBDQPqU9YwAyU5lJ =VMCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
