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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Subject: Re: package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:31:15 -0800
On 10:27 Mon 02 Mar     , Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
> 
> > Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the
> > package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?
> >
> > To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still
> > have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use
> > which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are
> > adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> >
> Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at
> this point in time they really should.

If they don't, then they won't be able to install emacs anyway since all 
its ebuilds have EAPI 1.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
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