On 08/31/2012 04:07 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:03:25 -0700 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> 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. > > So does --take / --ignore with suggested dependencies, with the added > advantage that suggested packages don't end up being brought in without > user request just because a user has a particular use flag enabled > globally.
If the USE flags have ambiguous meanings doesn't that mean that they've been poorly named? -- Thanks, Zac
