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From: Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flags
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:16:53
Message-Id: 20031024151651.GA22658@netswarm.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flags by Spider
1 Yes, a generic INSTALL_PROTECT sounds good. I'd vote for that :)
2 It should be used at the final merge stage and not before.
3
4 For performance reasons it could be also used at the untar stage
5 when using .tbz2 packages (with --exclude=FILE).
6
7 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:08:13AM +0200, Spider wrote:
8 > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:34:10 +0200
9 > bkhl@××××××××××××.se (Björn Lindström) wrote:
10 >
11 >
12 > > And why couldn't those lines check the INSTALL_PROTECT (if that's what
13 > > we'll call it) variable? Including the non-installed files in binary
14 > > packages would work doesn't really have anything to do with whether
15 > > this is implemented as a FEATURE flag or a separate variable.
16 > >
17 >
18 > True, and then we could do some interesting default masking, like
19 > walling off /usr/local per default...
20 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flags Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>