On Thursday, August 05, 2010 03:17:18 Vaeth wrote:
> > what i'm proposing now is that we add a local USE flag (Nick proposed
> > "autopoint") to sys-devel/gettext. something like:
> > RDEPEND="autopoint? (
> >
> > git? ( dev-vcs/git )
> > !git? ( cvs? ( dev-vcs/cvs ) )
> >
> what i'm proposing now is that we add a local USE flag (Nick proposed
> "autopoint") to sys-devel/gettext. something like:
> RDEPEND="autopoint? (
> git? ( dev-vcs/git )
> !git? ( cvs? ( dev-vcs/cvs ) )
> !cvs? ( dev-vcs/git )
> )"
> idea is that
the gettext package and its implicit vcs has been a problem for us for time
immemorial (one of the first documented instances is Bug 55607 dated Jun
2004). at the time, we really had no way of handling this cleanly. but with
USE deps now, i think we address this somewhat sanely.
background: t
