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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:20:30
Message-Id: 48CEC387.9000200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE by "Santiago M. Mola"
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4 Santiago M. Mola wrote:
5 > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o> wrote:
6 >> I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug
7 >> reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such
8 >> flags. He suggested using use.mask in profiles. Well since ARCH is also
9 >> set by a profile, why not. Although a really persistent and stupid user
10 >> could use.unmask, it's better than no protection. And then we can think
11 >> how to replace the current ARCH->USE flag system with e.g. USE_EXPAND.
12 >> What do you think?
13 >>
14 >
15 > Seems like an acceptable workaround.
16 >
17 > For future EAPIs, ARCH could be a regular USE_EXPANDed flag as you
18 > suggest, and package managers could filter any flag in USE which is
19 > not listed in IUSE.
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21 While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that
22 most people tend to think that certain profile-specific flags such
23 as userland_* and kernel_* should be considered as implicit members
24 of IUSE and therefore they shouldn't be explicitly listed in in IUSE.
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26 - --
27 Thanks,
28 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>