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On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 17:48 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:12:45PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > As I said earlier, we'd like to get rid of the nasty auto-use feature, |
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> > including the support for the USE_ORDER variable. Right now we intend |
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> > this for 2.0.54 (might not be the final version number) unless there are |
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> > major objections to it. |
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> What will happen to the USE flags currently in use.defaults when this |
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> is removed? Perhaps some of them be moved to the profiles instead? |
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This would be the best way to go about it, yes. |
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> I'm mostly concerned about the 'udev' USE flag. Some packages rely on |
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> this to be able to function correctly on an udev enabled system. |
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> Since udev seems to be the default choice for our default-linux |
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> profiles, it would make sense to also set USE=udev in those profiles? |
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I think it should be set in default-linux. This means it would need to |
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be use.mask'd on any 2.4 profiles. The real issue here is what happens |
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to anyone that uses both 2.4 and 2.6 from the same profile? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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