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On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:36:40 +0200 |
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Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 04-04-2009 12:24:32 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > > Sure it's not a user land like GNU or BSD but I can't see why we |
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> > > couldn't change what USERLAND means. |
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> > But why change the meaning if it's confusing an unnecessary? |
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> > Perhaps it's more appropriate to set IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix". |
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> This sounds like a good thing to make it explicit prefix is an |
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> implicit USE-flag. |
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> However, I would still prefer to see prefix being masked in base, and |
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> then unmasked and forced in the prefix profiles. Does that make any |
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> sense? |
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The two aren't mutually contradictory. Quite the contrary. |
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For EAPI 3, we're aiming to make it illegal to do anything with a flag |
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unless it's either explicitly listed in IUSE or handled via a number of |
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special magic profile variables, so you'd either have to list it |
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everywhere or use one of the profile variables. Once you do that, how |
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you mask / force it is up to you, unless you need some kind of special |
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package manager handling for that flag. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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