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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Toys
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:50:53
Message-Id: 200410070753.28651.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Toys by Michael Tindal
1 On Thursday 07 October 2004 06:29, Michael Tindal wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:57 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 12:09, Michael Tindal wrote:
4 > > > The format is something like
5 > > > category/pkgname CFLAGS="...";LDFLAGS="...";USE="...";FEATURES="..."
6 > >
7 > > Unless you like things not compiling due to missing dependencies, don't
8 > > use USE in this file. Same deal with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and anything else
9 > > that could possibly affect dependencies (which is nothing that I can
10 > > think of at this stage).
11 >
12 > That wasn't really the point of the exercise (USE and the like).
13 > Portage already has files for that, so using this for that is pointless.
14 > It was more for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and such, and the example I gave was
15 > off the top of my head.
16
17 No problem. I was mostly just pointing it out for the onlookers and to preempt
18 invalid bug reports. Also worth pointing out is that most FEATURES would not
19 be honoured as well, as bashrc is only used on the bash side of things
20 whereas the python side of portage handles most of them.
21
22 Regards,
23 Jason Stubbs
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Toys Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>