On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:05:35 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It still means a rebuild of the binding providing library, which > involves unnecessary recompilation of the (typically) C or C++ > library, which in some cases can be a huge time sink - that in the > case that the library in question isn't at that time pulled in (in > that case the package manager can enable it at first merge), but > already installed without the bindings USE flags.
Not really. For packages that support it, it just means adding a way for that package to be told to do a partial rebuild for the addition of a use flag. But that discussion can come after Portage gets use dependencies... Which, as I understand it, won't be for at least another eighteen months because three more people have just asked for them. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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