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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] internal use only use flags
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:17:27
Message-Id: 468E866B.8080905@gentoo.org
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4 A grep '!!' /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc reveals the following:
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6 bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during
7 original system bootstrapping [make stage2]
8 build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for
9 creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1]
10 livecd - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during
11 livecd building.
12 selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be
13 set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
14 static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically
15 linked instead of dynamically
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17 I think these internal use only use flags should have names that indicate
18 that, for example: INTERNALUSE_bootstrap. This would help in recognizing them
19 and at the same time free those names for normal use. The newest GHC is now
20 forced to use "ghcbootstrap" and I plan on adding similar support to SBCL for
21 the next release.
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23 It's probably a big pain to do this.
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25 Marijn
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] internal use only use flags "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] internal use only use flags Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] internal use only use flags Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>