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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:02:36
Message-Id: 200510210000.04554.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Thursday 20 October 2005 23:47, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
3 > Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask
4 > file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by
5 > default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local
6 > use flag.
7 Because implementing https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61732 would be a
8 lot more cool :-)
9
10 Besides, if the effect on portage's behavior is the same, what's the
11 difference?
12
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14 Dan Armak
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>