Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Detecting gcj in ebuilds

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 2:57 am, Duncan wrote:
> Thomas de Grenier de Latour posted
> <20041112152916.348abb9e.degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>, excerpted below,  on
>
> Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:29:16 +0100:
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:20:29 +0900
> >
> > Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> wrote:
> >> emerge --pretend will always show what emerge is going to do.
> >
> > Sure, but you know how users are.[] I agree that your approach is the
> > right thing to do from a reasonable semantics point of view, but from a
> > user point of view it will probably look different.
> >   That said, this problem can also be solved by some cosmetic
> > means, like adding a big warning of that kind:
> >  * gcc will have to be emerged twice because you lack the fortran * USE
> >  flag, so if that is a problem for you, then add this flag * and you'll
> >  be fine. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
>
> OK, I'm one of those "users".  Read that as sysadmin of a Gentoo system.
> Sysadmin carries some responsibility for knowing how the system is set up,
> particularly as it pertains to security issues.  I don't take that
> responsibility lightly, nor would I expect anyone to seriously recommend
> that I do so.
>
> I would **NOT** appreciate portage taking upon ITSELF to CHANGE my USE
> flags behind my back!!!  Count this as one vote for emerge-stopping
> errors, NOT warnings that may or may not be seen in the middle of a string
> of emerges.  Yes, I use pretend (or more generally, ask), and would
> normally catch a repeated emerge there.  However, I still don't want use
> flags being changed out from under me.

This would be not very different than GNOME forcing you to emerge GTK despite 
having -gtk in your USE...
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
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