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Bug 421813

Summary: devmanual should document EAPI 4 USE dependency defaults
Product: Documentation Reporter: Michael Palimaka (kensington) <kensington>
Component: DevmanualAssignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/ch05s03s05.html#package-ebuild-eapi-4-metadata-dependencies-use-defaults
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Description Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev 2012-06-18 17:31:35 UTC
The devmanual should document EAPI 4 USE dependency defaults eg. app-foo/bar[baz(+)].
Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2012-06-18 17:41:03 UTC
It does.

Metadata

    use dependencies default

    In addition to the use-deps specified in EAPI=2, a (+) or (-) may be added to the use-dep to define a default-value in case the use-flag does not exist in the given package. The (+) means that this use-flag is assumed to be enabled, (-) the opposite.

    Example:
<snip>

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi/index.html