Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] default USE flags in profiles (+acl)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:36:59
Message-Id: 200609191118.27853.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] default USE flags in profiles (+acl) by Alec Warner
1 On Tuesday 19 September 2006 02:20, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Monday 18 September 2006 21:12, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
4 > >> I would prefer that we add this into a new release profile and move it
5 > >> "up" the profile inheritance tree as the non-acl profiles get
6 > >> deprecated, rather than introduce this into the current profiles.
7 > >
8 > > adding it to 2006.2+ is fine by me
9 >
10 > You can't add it to 2006.1; it ships with portage-2.1 and they may end
11 > up with a broken system before they upgrade to portage-2.1.1 (would
12 > require using an old snapshot though; but worse has happened).
13
14 lemme be clear here; people were getting broken systems because they were
15 breaking them :P
16
17 depclean has a very big warning that was ignored, so people would run it
18 without doing --newuse first
19 -mike