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From: Sven Wegener <swegener@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:48:12
Message-Id: 20050615114351.GK4585@lightning.stealer.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:50:13PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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5 > Sven Wegener wrote:
6 > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:56:43PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
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8 > >>I'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it package.autouse,
9 > >>package.use.auto or are you set on .force?
10 > >
11 > >
12 > > As Mike already wrote those names are too confusing with the automatic
13 > > activated USE flags. We already had some suggestions in this thread, but
14 > > none of them actually matched the purpose of the file. At least in my
15 > > opinion. use.force matches it best, but the "force" part is a quite hard
16 > > term. How about use.profile? Because these USE flags are activated or
17 > > needed by the profile.
18 >
19 > How about use.required, since they're required by the profile?
20
21 Sounds good to me. use.required sounds softer than use.force but still
22 has this "touch me and things may break horribly" bit.
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25 Sven Wegener
26 Gentoo Linux Developer
27 http://www.gentoo.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>