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From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:47:13
Message-Id: 20070710214402.0e9b79c0@eusebe
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example by Thilo Bangert
1 On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use
4 > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be
5 > used...
6
7 Because of the way USE flags stack in Portage (the USE_ORDER variable),
8 IUSE defaults are not a solution for dropping no* flags:
9 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43137/focus=43175
10 As Zac pointed out in his reply to this post, dropping nocxx and
11 friends is more a job for use.force / package.use.force.
12
13 --
14 TGL.
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16 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>