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From: "Piotr Jaroszyński" <peper@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:20:11
Message-Id: 200801021715.17296.peper@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag documentation by Mark Loeser
1 On Wednesday 02 of January 2008 16:58:33 Mark Loeser wrote:
2 > Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o> said:
3 > > You're the one forcing people to remove overriding USE flags from
4 > > use.local.desc when that's something that people have been doing for
5 > > ages. The current Portage tools support that method.
6 >
7 > Because this behaviour is not documented anywhere
8
9 It is documented in the PMS draft and imho it makes perfect sense (at least
10 with current solution):
11
12 "Flags must be listed once for each package to which they apply, or if a flag
13 is listed in both use.desc and use.local.desc, it must be listed once for
14 each package for which its meaning differs from that described in use.desc."
15
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17 Best Regards,
18 Piotr Jaroszyński
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