Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 19:50 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Sven Wegener wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56:43PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
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> >>I'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it package.autouse,
> >>package.use.auto or are you set on .force?
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> > As Mike already wrote those names are too confusing with the automatic
> > activated USE flags. We already had some suggestions in this thread, but
> > none of them actually matched the purpose of the file. At least in my
> > opinion. use.force matches it best, but the "force" part is a quite hard
> > term. How about use.profile? Because these USE flags are activated or
> > needed by the profile.
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> How about use.required, since they're required by the profile?

I like this much better.  It gives the user an obvious sense of the
purpose of the file/USE flags.  It also doesn't give the impression of
"forcing" something on people, but rather to say that "these need to be
here for proper functionality of this profile", which seems to be less
intrusive.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
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Gentoo Linux