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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're |
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> looking to cut out use.defaults support |
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> existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to |
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> carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE |
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^^^^^^ |
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> flags suddenly "disappearing" |
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I'm a bit confused, existing stable users won't be affected, but they |
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will notice use flags "disappearing"? Wouldn't that mean they are |
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affected or did you simply mistype and mean unstable? |
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> to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages you |
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> have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, if you |
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> have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your make.conf, |
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> profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups package |
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> installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE |
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That's the current behaviour in stable 2.0.x and will be gone with |
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2.1, right? |
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I'm a little confused now, could you clarify this? |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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