[oe] USE flags mumbling

[Michael Lippautz]

2010/7/2 Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>:
> ...
> I wonder, and I have to admit to having no real gentoo background here, how
> do they solve this problem?  Did they invent their own package format and
> add another field that consists of use flags?  That'd make some stuff a lot
> easier, but making deb/rpm get that mapping somehow seems hard at first.

On Gentoo you don't pull any binary packages but you load the ebuild (<=>
recipe) from a feed. Thus you can build what you need AT your machine, which
I don't think is possible here. Dependency management is done through this
ebuilds. Package A has useflags B? and C? and pulls other packages in
depending on if these flags are enabled.

Regards,
Michael