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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:00:26
Message-Id: 200601130657.24830.vapier@gentoo.org
1 as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're
2 looking to cut out use.defaults support
3
4 existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to
5 carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE
6 flags suddenly "disappearing"
7
8 to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages you
9 have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, if you
10 have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your make.conf,
11 profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups package
12 installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE
13 -mike
14 --
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults solar <solar@g.o>