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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's populate IUSE_IMPLICIT in the base profile
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:04:00
Message-Id: 506478B2.10505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's populate IUSE_IMPLICIT in the base profile by Mike Gilbert
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4 On 27/09/12 11:57 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 >> Hi,
8 >>
9 >> The council has approved [1] "Profile IUSE injection" [2] for
10 >> inclusion in EAPI 5, and in latest Portage we have experimental
11 >> EAPI 5_pre2 [3] which implements all of the approved features.
12 >> So, now would be a good time to start populating IUSE_IMPLICIT
13 >> with whatever values may be appropriate.
14 >>
15 >> What values belong there? Some of the flags that appear in
16 >> profiles/base/use.mask might make good candidates, such as prefix
17 >> and selinux. How about other special flags like bootstrap, build,
18 >> and test?
19 >>
20 >
21 > prefix and test make sense to me. I'm not so familiar with the
22 > others.
23 >
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25 build is specifically for catalyst and/or for building the stages,
26 right? If so, this one makes sense to me to add.
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28 bootstrap I would guess is similar? Unsure how that one is used at
29 present. If IUSE_IMPLICIT would still allow the boostrapping tool to
30 set the use flag, i see no issues having it in the list.
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