On 11/08/15 20:17, Sergey Popov wrote: > 09.08.2015 23:28, Ulrich Mueller пишет: >> I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly, >> and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it. > > So, you prefer to make ugly mess of deps here like i posted before or > introduce some really unneded USE-flag like 'gui', 'qt', etc. to make > users even more confused? > > Really, look at man-db ebuild. Especially on berkdb and gdbm USE flags. > And dependency string like this: > > !berkdb? ( !gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm ) ) > > One sentence: "WHAT THE HELL?" > > Imagine that it would be dozen of flags. Is it fun to mess with deps > like this for you?
Shall we ban this too? ffmpeg? ( libav? ( media-video/libav:= ) !libav? ( media-video/ffmpeg:0= ) )