Re: [gentoo-dev] Setting USE_EXPAND defaults in profiles (in some cases)

[Harald van Dijk]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:01:12AM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
> Zac Medico wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> >>> agaffney suggested this in the first place, and every time I think about
> >>> it, it seems like a better idea. If we set VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES
> >>> in the arch profiles, we get the arch-specific defaults we need without
> >>> the really hugely ugly indecipherable mess in the ebuilds that nobody
> >>> can understand besides Josh_B and me. The very strange corner case this
> >>> doesn't work with is if people manually set VIDEO_CARDS="", then they
> >>> will no longer get the behavior of pulling in everything. But the
> >>> default case will still work great.
> >
> > As of portage-2.1.1_pre4-r4, VIDEO_CARDS="" should now continue to work like
> > before no matter how you've enabled the flags in the profile.
>
> > As part of the fix for bug 142125, portage automatically regenerates all of
> > the USE_EXPAND variables to be consistent with the corresponding USE
> flags.
> >
> > Zac
>
> Well, please don't change the behaviour in every other release, it's
> very confusing and people file bugs about it. And -r4 behaviour is
> incorrect, as it ignores defaults in profiles when you set anything in
> make.conf. -r3 got it correctly so that foo in profiles could be
> overriden with -foo in make.conf, this doesn't work any more in -r4.

That was a bug, not a feature. Older portage versions behave as -r4
does, and -r3's behaviour forces users to set invalid values in
certain cases.
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