Bug 506944

Summary:	media-video/mpv consider to drop REQUIRED_USE
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Julian Ospald <hasufell>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Nikoli <nikoli>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	media-video, proxy-maint
Priority:	Low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Julian Ospald 2014-04-06 14:22:37 UTC

REQUIRED_USE was primarily meant to avoid reverse-deps breakage, but this package is currently not used by anything else which makes the heavy use of REQUIRED_USE a moot point.

It forces people to micro-manage USE flags which is not a usability improvement, but a necessary workaround in some situations.

Inter-USE flag dependencies can be expressed in metadata.xml and warnings can be emitted in pkg_setup or pkg_postinst. If people don't read USE flag description, then that's their problem.

This is not a hard rule and up to the maintainer.

Comment 1 Nikoli 2014-04-06 14:39:25 UTC

Until migrating to REQUIRED_USE there was a HUGE mess in src_configure. I think current REQUIRED_USE is fine in mpv: it prevents compiling with wrong USE flags and makes enabling required features simpler. Also most of deps are already enabled in desktop profiles, so users do not need to change a lot USE flags.