Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 13 January 2006 11:15, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will
> > continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may
> > notice some USE
> > flags suddenly "disappearing"
>
> I'm a bit confused, existing stable users won't be affected, but they
> will notice use flags "disappearing"? Wouldn't that mean they are
> affected or did you simply mistype and mean unstable?

correct, should have said unstable

> > to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages
> > you have installed when you havent declared a preference.  for example,
> > if you have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your
> > make.conf, profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups
> > package installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE
>
> That's the current behaviour in stable 2.0.x and will be gone with
> 2.1, right?

yes
-mike
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