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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES to cut the excess in portage
From:       Ryan Hill <dirtyepic () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-11-27 4:30:26
Message-ID: 20061126223026.421ee57d () tycho ! dirtyepic ! ca
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> Can those flags be used in dependencies ?

Not as far as I know.  They're FEATURES, not flags, and are global.

> Let's say, some package needs certain tools (ie. TeX) for building
> its documentation, it would be stupid to build the whole docs
> and so require these tools, if docs are not wanted at all.

That's what the doc USE flag is for. ;)

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