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Let's see if we can keep to one thread per item here. |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:14:00 +0200 |
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Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> > * PROFILE-IUSE-INJECTION |
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> yes, but *_IMPLICIT has to be discussed. |
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There are a few suggested use cases for these: |
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* Avoiding the need for developers to have to explicitly list ARCH in |
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IUSE. Without implicits, ARCH will be empty and USE won't contain the |
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arch flag name unless IUSE explicitly lists it. Some developers would |
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rather not list arch flags explicitly. |
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* Ditto for things like USERLAND. |
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* People want to be able to carry on using flags like 'build' that |
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wouldn't otherwise work. |
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And a few related points that people might otherwise miss: |
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* Listing something in IUSE does not have to mean it will show up in |
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package manager output. There are special HIDDEN variables for those. |
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* Without this whole stricter USE mess, [use(+)] dependencies are |
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rather crippled. You can't do [linguas_en(+)] against any existing |
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EAPI, for example. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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