El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 15:54 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió:
> On 25/07/14 03:51 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 20:46 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> >> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:44:02 +0200 Luis Ressel <ara...@aixah.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Okay, I didn't think of that. I'm not sure if the blocker deps
> >>> or the REQUIRED_USE would be more helpful for Portage, but
> >>> generally I think that the REQUIRED_USE error message is quite
> >>> hard to understand for unexperienced users -- much more so than
> >>> the error generated by a blocker dep.
> >> 
> >> ...and the fix for that is to scrap REQUIRED_USE and use
> >> pkg_pretend instead.
> >> 
> > 
> > Could you give an example to let us see how pkg_pretend could be
> > used to achieve the same as REQUIRED_USE?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> 
> pkg_pretend() {
>       if use heimdal && use mit-krb5; then
>               eerror "Please set only one of the use following flags:"
>               eerror "heimdal, mit-krb5"
>               die "conflicting use flags set"
>       fi
> }

Ah, ok, I was wondering why REQUIRED_USE was implemented then :/, I
guess it was for simplifying ebuilds?


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