On 05/21/2013 10:02 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2013 09:57:53 -0400
> Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 05/21/2013 09:50 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:45:12 +0000 (UTC)
>>> Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> But the point you're missing is that INSTALL_MASK is NOT a hack.
>>>
>>> Sure it is. It's a hack and remains a hack until there's a way of
>>> using it without risk of breakage.
>>
>> That's a silly requirement. Every time I sit down with one of my
>> systems and start playing/exploring (If I've gone a month without
>> getting somewhat competent with something completely new to me, it's
>> been a bad month) with USE flags, I break my system with within
>> hours. USE flags are awesome at what they do, and they're incredibly
>> robust, but that doesn't mean that toggling features on and off isn't
>> dangerous.
> 
> And you're reporting bugs for all these missing or automagic
> dependencies, right?
> 

Actually, yes.

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