Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:20:17
Message-Id: 20090312232003.5e2112f1@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3 by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:05:54 +0100
2 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm> wrote:
3 > No idea whether it's "fast" idea, but:
4 >
5 > - USE flags aliases
6
7 Aliases for anything aren't fast or easy.
8
9 The big problem is this: the interactions between installed packages and
10 the main repository, and between the main repository and overlays, get
11 very messy. Working out exactly what happens when aliases disappear or
12 are inconsistent gets to be rather tricky.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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