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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:22:29
Message-Id: 5310AA17.3020802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild? by Samuli Suominen
1 On 02/28/2014 08:28 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > It would be very helpful if INSTALL_MASK could be overriden from an
3 > ebuild, if user hasn't
4 > set otherwise.
5 > So it could be configured like USE_ORDER which is
6 > "env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:repo:env.d"
7 > So INSTALL_MASK_ORDER like "ebuild:${user's own INSTALL_MASK}"
8 > This would be very helpful in preventing people from shooting themself
9 > in the foot
10 >
11 > The only problem is that I propably don't have enough python skills to
12 > make that happen w/
13 > sys-apps/portage. But does the suggestion make sense? Should I open a
14 > feature request bug?
15 >
16 What would be the purpose? Can you give me a use case.
17
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19 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
20 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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