On 08/12/15 22:38, William Hubbs wrote: > I always wondered why pkg_pretend never caught on.
Because, in a way, it triggers at the wrong point of the merge. emerge -pv fnurk => dependencies look ok emerge fnurk => pkg_pretend bails out ... eh?! (This would be a little bit confusing, if not actively hostile, and useflags + required_use are a lot more 'natural' to the emerge workflow) > I to can see the advantage of it over REQUIRED_USE; it would allow the > package maintainer to give specific error messages about why use flag > combinations are invalid for a package. And now someone will say "annotations". Sigh. have fun, Patrick
