On Thursday 11 August 2005 00:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:24:54 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | On Wednesday 10 August 2005 22:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:10:39 -0400 Michael Cummings
> | >
> | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > | (not directed at dsd in particular, just the last one in my inbox
> | > | to reply :) That's great and all that its in features for the
> | > | installation, but what about packages with optional dependencies
> | > | based on doc and man?
> | >
> | > Join in the quest to get FEATURES added to the expand list! Bug
> | > #82513.
> |
> | Personally, I think adding FEATURES to USE_EXPAND is terrible.
> | Portage features are not ebuild features. How much do you like C code
> | that has #ifdef's for the compiler being used? It's the same thing.
>
> Then please introduce TESTDEPEND, MANDEPEND and INFODEPEND instead.

TESTDEPEND? Yes. This seems like the best solution as there is an ebuild 
phase for which it applies to. MAN and INFO? Don't like it so much. I don't 
have any solutions to offer at this stage, though.

-- 
Jason Stubbs

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