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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:43:32
Message-Id: 47A95708.6070402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
2 >
3 > Incidentally, if anyone is still thinking that built_with_use is
4 > fine... It doesn't handle IUSE defaults, which means package managers
5 > have to store a hacked version of IUSE in VDB for EAPI 1. This isn't
6 > documented anywhere and is highly unobvious.
7 >
8
9 I don't understand this. IUSE defaults affect whether a use flag is on
10 or off when installing the ebuild. Why would it need to be stored in the
11 VDB? There should only be a need of the value of $USE. Please elaborate.
12
13 Regards,
14 Petteri

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