El mié, 29-05-2013 a las 11:46 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: > On 29/05/13 11:43 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > > I think, it'll be nice to have a way to suggest some packages to > > user, when (s)he installs something. For now it is only way to do > > that by something like: > > > > pkg_postinst() { if ! has_version dev-lua/iluajit; then einfo > > "You'd probably want to install dev-lua/iluajit to"; ewarn "get > > fully functional interactive shell for LuaJIT"; fi if has_version > > app-editors/emacs || has_version app-editors/xemacs; then einfo > > "You'd probably want to install app-emacs/lua-mode to"; ewarn "get > > Lua completion in emacs."; fi } > > > > but some people find that way annoying and some devs also thinks it > > is bad way. Another way (use USEflags-related PDEPs — is a bad way > > too). > > > > Any thoughts? :) > > > > > There are many thoughts, iirc there was at least one 100+ long thread > in august/september 2012. Search for "SDEPEND" and "IUSE_RUNTIME" in > the mailing list logs. >
Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373323 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453618 But I cannot remember what was finally blocking them (specially solution pointed in second bug report)