Re: Re: Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

On 1 Aug 2009, at 14:54, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> ...
> It has always baffled me, given this sensitivity, that all such
> packages don't just declare that they use the 'ithreads' USE flag,
> even if they don't explicitly.  Then my usual emerge --newuse would do
> the Right Thing (TM).

The build scripts (makefile or whatever) of some packages will  
autodetect whether a feature is available. Thus they take advantage of  
another package's USE flag, without their own ebuild featuring it. I  
think this issue may be complicated by upstream decisions, thus  
complicating matters so that it may not be so easy for Gentoo  
developers to do the "right thing".

Stroller.