Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 15/22] EAPI 6 has in_iuse.

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:05:08 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
> >> We already say in the first paragraph of the section: "Ebuilds must
> >> not run any of these functions in global scope." which applies to
> >> all USE list functions.
>
> > How about taking the opportunity to explicitly force all of these to
> > die, then? I can see in_iuse being abused horribly if Portage isn't
> > made to enforce this...
>
> Hm, how about replacing above sentence by: "It is an error if an
> ebuild calls any of these functions in global scope."?

That will work, if the appropriate Portage developer hands can be
twisted.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh