On 08/31/2012 03:18 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> For optional dependencies, I'm pretty happy with the "runtime-switchable >> USE flags" proposal: >> >> https://gist.github.com/2945569 > > runtime-switchable USE flags for optional dependencies o.O? It sounds > like using a spoon to eat spaghetti to me.
All suggested deps are not equal, so USE flags give you the ability to pick and choose the ones that you want. > I think SDEPEND is a much simpler approach to the issue, why > introducing a new kind of USE flags to address what really belongs to > *DEPEND? I guess we could combine the two ideas if we allow USE conditionals inside SDEPEND. -- Thanks, Zac
