[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting rid of lurking no* USE flags - profile-based package.use

[Ryan Hill]

Zac Medico wrote:
> Jason Smathers wrote:
>> On 10/2/07, *Robin H. Johnson* <robbat2@g.o
>> <mailto:robbat2@g.o>> wrote:
>
>>     Hi Guys,
>
>>     Before dberholz complains about my next commit, given that we have
>>     support in profiles for package.use, how soon can we start to use it to
>>     replace the old crufty no* flags (particularly ones that are
>>     critical to
>>     a system).
>
>
>> I like the default use flag solution, which seems to be introduced with
>> portage 2.1.2.  This way you can replace nofoo with foo and
>> IUSE="+foo" if you want it to default on.
>
> Given that >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2 has been stable since February,
> and it's included in the 2007.0 release media, I think it's pretty
> safe to start using package.use in profiles.
>
> As for using things like IUSE defaults and SLOT dependencies in
> ebuilds (both supported by portage-2.1.2), the most backward
> compatible approach is to do an EAPI bump. We should probably
> include a few other things in the EAPI-1 bump [1] that aren't
> implemented yet. We don't have to include everything that's planned,
> but it would be good to include at least some of the simplest features.

SLOT depends are something we could really use right now.  What kind of
time frame are you thinking of?

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