On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:15:16 -0700 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > This sounds more like a user-interface issue than a problem with > runtime-switchable USE flags (GLEP 62). The nice thing about > runtime-switchable USE flags is that makes it possible to allow users > to unify all of their optional dependency choices in their USE flag > settings.
The nice thing about GLEP 62 is that no-one has implemented it and tried it with lots of packages and a bunch of users, thus figuring out just how much of a pain in the ass getting this right is... Right now we're debating the merits of a tried and tested solution versus an entirely hypothetical idea. If you really think unification is an advantage, you could treat exheres-style suggestion names as a special USE_EXPAND group. But practical experience suggests that suggestions *shouldn't* be unified, and that the way to make the feature useful to users is to get the user to explicitly accept or reject suggestions, and to make suggestions look like suggestions. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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