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On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>   * We all seem to have decided having *both* depends and select is dumb.
>     So we decided we could remove select but fix tools first to give you
>     what you need:

They're totally different and both make sense.  You can select a library
but you can select an ARM.  Select is for hiding infratructure that
users don't care about and depend is for hiding features that users
can't have.

regards,
dan carpetner