Bug 8037

Summary:	USE negations to be honoured in dependancies
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tom von Schwerdtner <tvon>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15371
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom von Schwerdtner 2002-09-17 11:25:46 UTC

If I have USE="-X", then merging an app that depends on gnome (or anything else
that eventually depends on X) should not work.

In other words:

'emerge foo' -> depends on gnome -> depends on X -> user said "I dont want X" ->
exit ERROR: -X requested, X exists in foo dependancy tree...etc


This comes from the "why is vim merging X/gtk/gnome when I have USE=-X" issue.


Some discussion of this here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15371

Comment 1 Tom von Schwerdtner 2002-09-17 15:55:52 UTC

Okay, USE dosent seem to be meant for what I'm asking.  Something along the
lines of /etc/package.mask is more accurate.  Basically a mask file ment for
sysadmin use (in the thinking that /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask being is
for distro-admin use).

Comment 2 Tom von Schwerdtner 2002-09-17 16:11:58 UTC

I've been pointed to 5622, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5622 ***