Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

[Petteri Räty]

Dan Armak wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2005 23:47, Petteri Räty wrote:
>
>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
>>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask
>>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by
>>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local
>>use flag.
>
> Because implementing https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61732 would be a
> lot more cool :-)

Cool indeed. I did a quick search on bugzilla for package.use, but did
not find out anything. Although I was quite sure that something like
this was already proposed, but searching for my solution did not bring
anything up.

>
> Besides, if the effect on portage's behavior is the same, what's the
> difference?
>

Well my solution is backwards compatible because older portage versions
will just ignore the file. The solution in the bug would need the new
EAPI stuff which is probably still some time away (just a guess). The
package.use file could be used in the meantime and after the new
features are available we could just move everything from the
package.use file to the ebuilds themselves.

Regards,
Petteri