From: | Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> |
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
Subject: | [gentoo-dev] use.defaults and pointless commits |
Date: | Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:35:53 |
Message-Id: | 951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org |
1 | Hello everyone, |
2 | |
3 | would someone more competent explain to me, why |
4 | |
5 | - this feature even exists |
6 | - why has a mass of things been commited in there recently |
7 | |
8 | ? |
9 | |
10 | It's |
11 | |
12 | - confusing users |
13 | - rendering /etc/portage/package.keywords useless (install a dep for one |
14 | particular ebuild and enjoy the USE flag enabled globally) |
15 | - causing unwanted results (I did not really install app-text/recode for the |
16 | purpose of enabling USE=recode globally and make it clash with half of php USE |
17 | flags e.g.) |
18 | - causing pointless breakage/bailing out in current ebuilds for users that have |
19 | not touched USE flags on their system at all |
20 | |
21 | Related links: |
22 | |
23 | http://viewcvstest.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/use.defaults?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 |
24 | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112074 |
25 | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86687#c7 |
26 | |
27 | Suggested solution: remove use.defaults feature from portage; meanwhile, stop |
28 | adding stuff in there. It gains nothing, just confuses people and breaks |
29 | things. |
30 | |
31 | Thanks. |
32 | |
33 | -- |
34 | Best regards, |
35 | |
36 | Jakub Moc |
37 | mailto:jakub@g.o |
38 | GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E |
39 | Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E |
40 | |
41 | ... still no signature ;) |
Subject | Author |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] use.defaults and pointless commits | Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> |
[gentoo-dev] Re: use.defaults and pointless commits | Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> |
Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |