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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:44:10
Message-Id: 20150329194351.4faf893f@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: multilib amd64 news item for review by Andrew Savchenko
1 Dnia 2015-03-29, o godz. 20:35:27
2 Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:28:22 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > > If this is not the case, and "*/* abi_x86_32" in package.use really does
6 > > > something different, then this is implemented in a way too confusing for
7 > > > people and should be considered a bug :-/
8 > >
9 > > Yes, USE support in make.conf is a big pile of random misbehaviors
10 > > and bugs that need to be killed with fire.
11 >
12 > The proposal above is an absolute madness, especially for global
13 > USE flags.
14 >
15 > Why users should deal with dozens (if not hundreds useless */*)?
16
17 To get sane, consistent and predictable config for a start. But you
18 know that you can specify multiple flags on one line, right? In fact,
19 '*/* ' is shorter than 'USE=""'!
20
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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