On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 21:45, Spider (DmD Lj) wrote:
> > Erm..  No, I don't think he is. We've been asking / waiting for the
> > [use] syntax to appear since before you joined the project. It's been on
> > "the list" for so long that many of us have given up... ; )
> 
> He - and I thought I just missed the thread between all those emails in my 
> inbox. I'm interested as well to hear a bit about the proposed enhanced 
> dependency syntax.

dev-lang/python[tcltk]
^^^ need that atom resolved with use flag tcltk enabled

>=sys-apps/portage-2.0[sandbox,!build]
^^^ need >=portage-2.0 merged with sandbox on, build off.

kde-libs/kde:3
^^^ need any kde, with slotting enabled.

kde-libs/kde:3,4
^^^ need any kde, slotting 3 or 4.

Combination?  Not set in stone afaik, the implementation I have 
sitting in saviour doesn't care about the ordering however.


> > (finally we can kill use_with !! )
> 
> Why? There're not only autotooled configure scripts, so I don't see how to 
> replace it in a generic way. I don't see what this would have to do with 
> depending on ( ebuild foo without use flag bar ), either.

assume he meant built_with_use

~harring

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