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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