On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Finn Thain wrote:

>
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Finn Thain wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Kito wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Grobian wrote:
>>>
>>> On a somewhat related note, we need to decide sooner than later  
>>> on how
>>> distinguish between the collision-protect and non-collision- 
>>> protected
>>> profiles in ebuilds, as some things that are getting in the tree  
>>> break
>>> with a proper gentoo environment, mostly auto{conf,make} issues  
>>> at the
>>> moment (-a -c -f stuff, etc) , as well as python issues creeping  
>>> up as
>>> well, but this will probably get more convoluted very shortly...
>
> [snip]
>>
>> Now, if an ebuild needs to know that it has "2nd class" status,  
>> wouldn't a
>> use flag be appropriate? And if you were to implement such a use  
>> flag,
>> could it not be useful to other second-class citizens? For  
>> example, in
>> "portage for non-Gentoo Linux" or "portage for solaris" profiles.
>
> Actually, such a use flag is probably redundant. Isn't that what  
> the the
> "macos" in "ppc-macos" is for?

Well, thats part of the problem. As Darwin is not self-hosting  
currently, it requires a highly modified OS X environment(read:  
progressive profile) to built it, and the progressive profile shares  
the same keyword, *-macos, with the collision-protected profile.  
Another keyword isn't really feasible, I was thinking more along the  
lines of a variable added to the use-expand list in the profiles.

>
> I suspect the whole question goes away when portage gets prefixes.  
> So my
> post was probably just noise. Sorry.
>
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