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On Monday 13 June 2005 05:27 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> On Monday 13 June 2005 23:08, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > How is this not just a consequence of USE="-*"...that is what this does; |
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> > turns off ALL use flags. How is use.force ( or the concept thereof ) |
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> > not breaking the 'easy' interpretation of USE="-*" because now things |
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> > aren't -*, they are -* + use.force things. |
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> It's exactly what we want to avoid, -* everything can breaks things for |
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> useflags like uclibc (now replaced by elibc_uclibc) and hardened and so on |
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> which needs to be enabled *everytime*. |
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and is the EXACT reason we have the 'nocxx' USE flag instead of 'cxx' ... if |
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we put 'USE=cxx' into profiles' make.defaults, people who have USE=-* will |
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get a broken gcc |
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and no matter how much i'd like to close bugs generated in that case with "NOT |
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MY FAULT YOU HAVE A STUPID CONFIGURATION FILE YOU TOOL", i feel like that |
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would probably not be too friendly |
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-mike |
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