On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:10:56 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Also, speaking as someone who *has* implemented this kind of thing, I > have extreme doubts as to the viability of the proposal. So I'd be > extremely wary of voting in favour of it until we've been able to have > a play with an implementation. Could you please elaborate on what kind of problems may arise ? The proposal seems pretty simple and sane to me: PM only has to switch the useflags that are IUSE_RUNTIME in his installed packages db after installing the deps and without triggering a rebuild of said package.