On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:13:18 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> REQUIRED_USE came first, pkg_pretend came later, iirc.  In theory,
> REQUIRED_USE could have made a nice interactive way to resolve use
> conflicts, it just never did.

Nope. pkg_pretend came first, and had an implemented and user-tested
prototype. REQUIRED_USE was shoehorned in at the last minute without an
implementation.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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