On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:15:53PM +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > > >We have a new cache format, confcache, parallel fetch, etc... The > >bonus > >is these features are already mature and relatively old ( a year + > >as of > >now ). > > Reading about confcache i have one question: > > When i saw, that this feature exists (in make.examples) i activated > it. But it did not work because i had not emerged confcache. I think > this check should be stricter, if i want confcache and have > FEATURES="confcache" and confcache is not emerged, i think > emerge ... should die, not just say "Ok, you said you want it but > you don't have it, so i don't use it". What do you think about that?
Precedent is against you in this case...sandbox is the same way (notify instead of bailing). Personally I prefer the "if I told you to do something, bail if you can't" approach, but for features portage has usually done the opposite. ~harring
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