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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:41:06
Message-Id: 433966E1.1070000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND) by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 | On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
6 |>Which leads me to the one thing I didn't say but feel strongest
7 about.. What
8 |>is the real point of USE_EXPAND? What can/does it do that USE flags do
9 not?
10 |
11 |
12 | As far as I can tell, it was created to keep people from adding a huge
13 | number of USE flags to IUSE on a package. I can't see any other reason
14 | for it.
15
16 See my other email.
17
18 Thanks,
19 Donnie
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