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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:27:37
Message-Id: eafa4c130903020827x712e99bbk3ea2b9f1e6d9650b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the
4 > package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?
5 >
6 > To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still
7 > have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use
8 > which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are
9 > adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?
10 >
11 > Ulrich
12 >
13 >
14 Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at
15 this point in time they really should.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>