[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

[Ryan Hill]

On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:42:56 +0100
hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:

> What do we have useflags for in gentoo?

Not for conditional patching, that's for sure.

> add a "unsupported-kernels" useflag, mask it, add a clear statement in
> the masking reason and be done

If the description of the flag you're adding could be paraphrased to be
"enable this or nothing works" then you really shouldn't be allowed within 10
feet of any system with a tree checkout on it.  30 feet if you're also
suggesting it should be disabled by default.


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