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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Friday 21 October 2005 05:56 am, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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>>Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. |
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>>>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask |
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>>>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by |
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>>>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local |
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>>>use flag. |
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>>The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g. |
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>>profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has |
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>>"USE=-bar", which one should be preferred? |
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> this is a no brainer |
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> profile use.defaults |
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> profile package.use |
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> profile make.defaults |
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> user make.conf |
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> user package.use |
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> user env |
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> -mike |
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Ah yes. Why make the profiles behave differently than the user order? In |
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user order we have make.conf before package.use and in profile |
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make.defaults after package.use. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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