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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: FEATURES="binchecks strip" for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:35
Message-Id: l1k6r4$h16$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: FEATURES="binchecks strip" for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 21/09/2013 10:49, Duncan wrote:
2 > In addition to what the others have said, FEATURES= ?? AFAIK, FEATURES
3 > is PM-implementation-specific and not part of PMS. It's not something
4 > ebuilds/eclasses should be messing with or care about at all, as it's PM-
5 > private-implementation domain, not ebuild domain.
6 Presumably he is talking about FEATURES in the context of adding them to
7 RESTRICT, which is discussed in PMS.
8
9 (Not that it really matters anyway - there are plenty of non-PMS
10 variables used in ebuilds. That's fine, they control portage features
11 and will be ignored by other package managers.)

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