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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:33:55
Message-Id: 49D7B630.60703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: best way to introduce USE=prefix by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 >>> On 04-04-2009 15:21:23 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
5 >>>> You can set USERLAND="GNU PREFIX"
6 >>> Prefix is not a userland, please understand that.
7 >>> It's like pizza not being an elibc, or beer not being a kernel.
8 >>>
9 >> Sure it's not a user land like GNU or BSD but I can't see why we
10 >> couldn't change what USERLAND means.
11 >
12 > But why change the meaning if it's confusing an unnecessary?
13 > Perhaps it's more appropriate to set IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix".
14 >
15
16 I wasn't saying we should. I just said it can be used to solve the
17 problem. If prefix people are fine with having to be confined to EAPI 3,
18 then I have no problem with that.
19
20 Regards,
21 Petteri

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