On Friday 18 November 2005 22:20, Michael Cummings wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
>  > There are several requests on the bug, the majority are now fixed and
> >
> > everybody (at least within the portage team) is agreed that FEATURES
> > should not be added to USE_EXPAND. Essentially, I didn't take the time
> > to read through all the follow-ups related (and unrelated) to the one
> > request that wasn't addressed. A comment didn't seem to be required as
> > it appeared to be one of those bugs that are left open for months after
> > being fixed. Reopen and adjust the summary to something relevant if
> > you like.
>
> There's a reason that bugzilla mandates you provide a comment before
> closing a bug - even if its to say what you just did.

"Resolved - Fixed"?

> While the bug may have devolved, the original gist still stands - can we
> have a means of having FEATURES="maktest" translated into a use flag
> without requiring users to set both? (see my last comment in the bug for
> my interest on the matter :) I'm not advocating a full FEATURE explosion
> or anything of the like, and maybe this is something that should have
> been a USE flag and not a FEATURE to begin with, but its where we're at.

The last discussion that was had ended up with a TDEPEND, but that doesn't
cover the additional SRC_URI requirements. Besides SRC_URI, are there any
other requirements that might sneak in later on?

> I can of course take this over to bugzilla if you'd prefer :)

Nah, let's get it in the open (again) and get it dealt with.

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