gnome-base-2.12.2 depends on net-misc/howl, i have avahi installed with the howl-compat use flag so i should be good.
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5-asf2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5-asf2 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/overlay /usr/local/overlays/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac alsa apache2 apm artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cdrw crypt cups curl dbus divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread dvdrw eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mysql nas ncurses nfs nls objc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline recode samba sdl slic slp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
We can't depend on USE flags being enabled in some other ebuild, not possible with current portage.
i guess i assumed that because 2 packages provide the same fuctionality, that there would be some kind of virtual for that, like virtual/zeroconf. Thats all i was really trying to say, without trying to make sugestions to the devs
(In reply to comment #3) > i guess i assumed that because 2 packages provide the same fuctionality, that > there would be some kind of virtual for that, like virtual/zeroconf. Thats all > i was really trying to say, without trying to make sugestions to the devs Uhm, it's not really a virtual if one of the packages provides the required funtionality only with a certain use flag enabled; there's no way to specify such dependency - see Bug 2272.
