>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> The flag also pulls in additional dependencies for some ebuilds. >> So I wonder how it could be made unconditional? For example, >> app-admin/eselect[vim-syntax] depends on app-vim/eselect-syntax >> which in turn will pull in vim or gvim. Certainly not all users >> would want that?
> I was unaware that the USE flag sometimes introduces additional > dependencies. That being the case, we should certainly keep it. A quick scan shows that about 100 ebuilds in the tree have such a USE-conditional dependency. >> Similarly, if we get rid of the vim-syntax flag, should we phase >> out the emacs USE flag, too? > Does this also pull in optional dependencies? Yes, most of the time it does. Also, last time I had a (non-Emacs) package unconditionally install Emacs support, there were complaints by "religious" users who wanted to keep their systems 100% Emacs free. ;-) Ulrich
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