Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/base: ChangeLog package.use.force

[Markos Chandras]

On 19 July 2013 16:46, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Dnia 2013-07-19, o godz. 16:11:52
> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> On 19 July 2013 16:04, Ian Delaney (idella4) <idella4@g.o> wrote:
>> > idella4     13/07/19 15:04:28
>> >
>> >   Modified:             ChangeLog package.use.force
>> >   Log:
>> >   Add entry to force use flags for pypy-bin
>> >
>> > Revision  Changes    Path
>> > 1.565                profiles/base/ChangeLog
>> >
>> > file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog?rev=1.565&view=markup
>> > plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog?rev=1.565&content-type=text/plain
>> > diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog?r1=1.564&r2=1.565
>> >
>> > Index: ChangeLog
>> > ===================================================================
>> > RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog,v
>> > retrieving revision 1.564
>> > retrieving revision 1.565
>> > diff -u -r1.564 -r1.565
>> > --- ChangeLog   17 Jul 2013 15:23:53 -0000      1.564
>> > +++ ChangeLog   19 Jul 2013 15:04:28 -0000      1.565
>> > @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
>> >  # ChangeLog for Gentoo base-profile
>> >  # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
>> > -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog,v 1.564 2013/07/17 15:23:53 chithanh Exp $
>> > +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/ChangeLog,v 1.565 2013/07/19 15:04:28 idella4 Exp $
>> > +
>> > +  19 Jul 2013; Ian Delaney <idella4@g.o>
>> > +  package.use.force:
>> > +  Add flags for new pypy-bin
>> >
>> >    17 Jul 2013; Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o>
>> >    package.use.mask:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 1.37                 profiles/base/package.use.force
>> >
>> > file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force?rev=1.37&view=markup
>> > plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force?rev=1.37&content-type=text/plain
>> > diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
>> >
>> > Index: package.use.force
>> > ===================================================================
>> > RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force,v
>> > retrieving revision 1.36
>> > retrieving revision 1.37
>> > diff -u -r1.36 -r1.37
>> > --- package.use.force   9 Jul 2013 17:47:25 -0000       1.36
>> > +++ package.use.force   19 Jul 2013 15:04:28 -0000      1.37
>> > @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
>> >  # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
>> >  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>> > -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force,v 1.36 2013/07/09 17:47:25 graaff Exp $
>> > +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/package.use.force,v 1.37 2013/07/19 15:04:28 idella4 Exp $
>> > +
>> > +# Ian Delaney <idella4@g.o> (17 July 2013)
>> > +# Selection of IUSE flags for bin build.
>> > +dev-python/pypy-bin bzip2 ncurses sqlite ssl xml
>> >
>> >  # Michał Gorny <mgorny@g.o> (26 Feb 2013)
>> >  # Meta-packages which use multilib ebuilds always install development
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I don't understand that. Why not use +bzip2 +ncurses +sqlite +ssl +xml
>> in the ebuild?
>
> I guess that's because they are not optional :).
>

So why are these features behind use flags?

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Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang