On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:16:03 +0200 "Denis Dupeyron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's OK to start using package.use now considering that > > package.use has been supported since portage-2.1.2 and that's been > > stable since February. There are already a couple of packages using > > it in the tree now. > > Is it a good idea for those ebuilds that require new features to have > a >= dependency on a specific version of portage ? Or not ? No, as it wouldn't help anyway: the depgraph is calculated before portage would be updated (so package.use/IUSE defaults wouldn't be used). See http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/treedeps.txt for some information on this kind of issues (while the text wasn't written with this issue in mind it still applies to it). Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
