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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:12:59
Message-Id: 430585F4.40008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults by Brian Harring
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4 Brian Harring wrote:
5 | Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is
6 | eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility
7 | in breaking the package down into conditionals.
8 |
9 | I really don't see -* being all that useful long term frankly, since
10 | the major usage of it I've seen is either within cascaded profiles, or
11 | nuking autouse; people do block profile use flags also, but killing
12 | autouse falls in with killing profiles :)
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14 I don't think that having -* not actually do -* is a good idea. And most
15 people adding local flags don't really consider the -* case so creating
16 no* flags isn't a major concern.
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18 ~From my POV, -* is expected to not work well, but it should do what it
19 suggests: subtract everything.
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21 Thanks,
22 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Local USE defaults Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>