Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 13 June 2005 05:27 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 23:08, Alec Warner wrote:
> > How is this not just a consequence of USE="-*"...that is what this does;
> > turns off ALL use flags.  How is use.force ( or the concept thereof )
> > not breaking the 'easy' interpretation of USE="-*" because now things
> > aren't -*, they are -* + use.force things.
>
> It's exactly what we want to avoid, -* everything can breaks things for
> useflags like uclibc (now replaced by elibc_uclibc) and hardened and so on
> which needs to be enabled *everytime*.

and is the EXACT reason we have the 'nocxx' USE flag instead of 'cxx' ... if 
we put 'USE=cxx' into profiles' make.defaults, people who have USE=-* will 
get a broken gcc

and no matter how much i'd like to close bugs generated in that case with "NOT 
MY FAULT YOU HAVE A STUPID CONFIGURATION FILE YOU TOOL", i feel like that 
would probably not be too friendly
-mike

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