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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:31:45
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0608081224500.11062@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles by Peter Gordon
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4 On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Peter Gordon wrote:
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6 > Zac Medico wrote:
7 >> The difference with use.force is that it prevents flags, that are deemed
8 >> extremely important, from being accidentally disabled by the user.
9 >
10 > If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional,
11 > and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something?
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13 This could allow for us to get rid of the nofoo use flag nomenclature that
14 folks have been doing for functionality that is highly suggested to be on
15 by default.
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17 Cheers,
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19 Jason Wever
20 Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force as a complement to use.mask in profiles Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>