Re: [gentoo-dev] ${ARCH} in SRC_URI

[Paul Smith]

%% Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o> writes:

  ag> Paul Smith wrote:	[Fri Feb 13 2004, 04:22:31PM EST]

  >> I didn't realize you could use USE flags in a SRC_URI.  This is
  >> fine for me.

  ag> Btw, the reason you can't use ${ARCH} (or any other variable which
  ag> will change depending on the environment) is because portage will
  ag> be unable to compute the digest properly.  On the other hand, when
  ag> you use x86? or similar, then portage can "pretend" to be all the
  ag> arches and USE-flags at once, so the digest can be computed.

Ah yes.  Makes perfect sense.

Thanks for the info...

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