>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Brian Harring wrote: > Not just my proposal- council contradicted it via even letting > pkg_pretend into EAPI3 (now EAPI4):
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-coun...@lists.gentoo.org/msg00493.html It says "displaying conflicting USE flags" which doesn't necessarily imply that the ebuild should fail. > I honestly consider the ebuild silently making decisions on the > user's behalf *worse*. Right, this is exactly what we should decide on, before talking about possible implementations. We already have enough issues with circular dependencies, and I'm sceptical about adding additional failures on USE flag conflicts. Display a warning, but don't error out. Ulrich
