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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. |
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> Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask |
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> file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by |
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> default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local |
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> use flag. |
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The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g. |
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profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has |
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"USE=-bar", which one should be preferred? |
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Current rules say that /etc/portage/package.use overrides make.conf, and |
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user config overrides profiles, the proposal would create a new |
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unintuitive situation between those two. |
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Depending on the answer on this it also has some technical implications |
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with the way package.use support is implemented currently. In short it's |
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not a trivial thing to do. |
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Marius |
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