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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:42:59
Message-Id: 200510210913.29341.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use by Marius Mauch
1 On Friday 21 October 2005 05:56 am, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > > Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
4 > > Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask
5 > > file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by
6 > > default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local
7 > > use flag.
8 >
9 > The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g.
10 > profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has
11 > "USE=-bar", which one should be preferred?
12
13 this is a no brainer
14
15 profile use.defaults
16 profile package.use
17 profile make.defaults
18 user make.conf
19 user package.use
20 user env
21 -mike
22
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>