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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:58:14
Message-Id: CAHY5MecEos599Jb_zpZD814zZ+sk_MVKe6NtBM91BNH5WQgsPg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force by Markos Chandras
1 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>wrote:
2
3 > On 19 July 2013 16:46, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 > > Dnia 2013-07-19, o godz. 16:11:52
5 > > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> napisał(a):
6 > >
7 > >> On 19 July 2013 16:04, Ian Delaney (idella4) <idella4@g.o>
8 > wrote:
9 > >> > +# Ian Delaney <idella4@g.o> (17 July 2013)
10 > >> > +# Selection of IUSE flags for bin build.
11 > >> > +dev-python/pypy-bin bzip2 ncurses sqlite ssl xml
12 > >>
13 > >> I don't understand that. Why not use +bzip2 +ncurses +sqlite +ssl +xml
14 > >> in the ebuild?
15 > >
16 > > I guess that's because they are not optional :).
17 > >
18 >
19 > So why are these features behind use flags?
20 >
21
22 Wild guess: It's -bin. It's built with those flags. You can't choose to
23 install it with flags other than what it was built with.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>