Am Freitag 27 April 2012, 16:31:10 schrieb Ian Stakenvicius:
 
> > Where this would (have been|be) useful: * we had for a long time
> > different revisions of subversion with/without kde useflag *
> > cups-1.4 had the infamous libusb backend triggered by USE=usb *
> > cups-1.5 has optional systemd support via a systemd useflag, which
> > pulls in non-stabilized systemd as dependency...
> 
> I'm not sure that I'm following the cups examples here.  For cups-1.5
> even if it were stable, if someone actually wanted to use systemd on
> their system and unmasked/keyworded it (while running stable
> everything else) I don't see why this would be an issue that would
> need this new masking feature (unless IUSE="+systemd", which probably
> shouldn't be the case anyways).

The point is that as it is now cups(-1.5.2-r20) could not be stabilized 
without a stable systemd, because systemd is a dependency (optional on useflag 
systemd).

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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