El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 21:18 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:12:53 +0200 > Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Ah, ok, I was wondering why REQUIRED_USE was implemented then :/, I > > guess it was for simplifying ebuilds? > > It was a historical mistake: originally we were going to use > pkg_pretend for this. But claims were made that this would break some > mythical auto-building systems, and that something machine-readable was > needed. Unfortunately the Council bought this, and put through > REQUIRED_USE without a reference implementation. > > Needless to say, the end result is something that isn't human-readable, > and isn't used by any mythical auto-building systems. > > (Incidentally, Exherbo has a both human- and machine-readable > implementation, which *is* used by an auto-building system, but the > syntax won't meet Gentoo approval...) >
Maybe REQUIRED_USE could allow us to set an error message for each line to allow us to instruct PMs about what message should they who to the users :/ (it would show our message that should be more clear, a bit like we are able to do with "die 'message'")
