Zend_Db depends on building php with pdo use flag enabled, please update the ebuild to reflect this. Reproducible: Always
The question is, if everybody that uses ZendFramework uses Zend_Db ? If not, then imo there really is no reason to force everyone to enable the pdo useflag.
that's why I suggested a flag instead of simply pulling in the dependency, this way people can enable it if they use it, but I guess it's pretty likely sooner or later they will use it even if they don't the very first time...
The problem is, that it doesn't make much sense to all a local use flag that only adds a check for another useflag in php. Then we can add many different local use flags for ZendFramework, one for each feature, and do a chech for each of them, to make sure php is compiled with the right use flags. It's not a solution really, since it is better that people find out which things doesn't work, and adds the use flags to php, than they have to find out what doesn't work, find the use flags in ZendFramework, enable them, find out that they need some other use flags for php, and then add them too. The best solution would be, if Zend added a diagnostics tool the their framework, that detects what is missin from php for certain features to work - but currently there is no such thing that I know of.
I'm closing this, since the solution is going to be that people figure out which features they need from php, and enable them if needed. I would suggest contacting Zend about a diagnostic tool like I mentioned before (maybe even better - write the tool and submit it upstream :-) ). I know this is not what you wanted, but I'm not gonna add a use flag for every feature, to make it check if php has the needed features enabled. That solution would also be a hell to maintain, as features gets added, removed and extended.
