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On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote: |
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> > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use |
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> > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be |
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> > used... |
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> Because of the way USE flags stack in Portage (the USE_ORDER variable), |
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> IUSE defaults are not a solution for dropping no* flags: |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43137/focus=43175 |
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> As Zac pointed out in his reply to this post, dropping nocxx and |
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> friends is more a job for use.force / package.use.force. |
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the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than the -* |
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case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags |
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also, use.force isnt exactly a nice solution ... more like brute force, i'm |
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not sure any no* flag would be appropriate |
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-mike |
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