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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:40:30
Message-Id: 20141117204015.GA27357@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency by Alexander Hof
1 On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:42:57PM +0100, Alexander Hof wrote:
2 > Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 > >> There are people that don't want c++ and gcc:4.7 can still bootstrap
4 > >> without.
5 > >>
6 > >
7 > > Those people "know what they are doing" and could un-force the use
8 > > flag. That would prevent people from accidentally disabling it via
9 > > USE="-*".
10 >
11 > Are we talking about forcing +cxx globally or for gcc (+toolchain)?
12 >
13 > Has this been a major problem in the past? Shouldn't people who set
14 > USE="-*" also "know what they are doing"?
15
16 This is my feeling as well.
17
18 If someone using Gentoo uses USE="-* foo bar ..." they get to keep the
19 pieces.
20
21 William

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