Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Did portage 2.1 change default use flags?

[Alec Warner]

Duncan wrote:
> Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net> posted
> pan.2006.06.13.16.57.04.370327@×××××××.net, excerpted below, on  Tue, 13
> Jun 2006 12:57:08 -0400:
>
>
>>On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:08:03 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Monday 12 June 2006 12:57, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Monday 12 June 2006 12:42, Peter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>All of a sudden, emerge -uD --newuse world is showing dozens of
>>>>>ebuild that are replaced due to removed use flags.
>>>>
>>>>Look at the first section of[:]
>>>>http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060116-newsletter.xml
>>>
>>>As far as I can see this is not mentioned in either this weeks GWN, the
>>>portage 2.1 release notes or the 2.1 news page [references]. I'm sure a
>>>lot of people running stable don't remember the GWN from January.
>>>Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere now?

>>Maybe this corrected an error from prior ebuilds or portage versions.
>>But, from where I sit, the cure seems worse than the original problem.
>
>
> How so?  It's making Gentoo more Gentoo-like.  Taking a decision that
> /was/ being made and changed arbitrarily based on what was merged, by the
> distribution, and putting that decision back squarely in the hands of the
> folks who have, by making the Gentoo choice in the first place, signified
> that they WANT the choice of making that decision, AND the responsibility
> for doing so.
>
> As I've said, this absolutely should be in the release notes, and
> preferably should be in other coverage of the  portage 2.1 changes as
> well.  There is IMO no excuse for it not being there.  However, also
> IMO, it shouldn't be a problem for any responsible Gentoo sysadmin, other
> than asking the very reasonable question of why the change isn't covered
> in the documentation.  Other than that, it's simply doing the bog-standard
> coping with routine USE flag changes, only there's a few more of them to
> deal with than "routine" in this case.
>
This was an oversight on our part.  I have added a snippet to the 
release notes:

For the lazy.
* autouse (use.defaults) has been deprecated by specifying USE_ORDER in 
make.defaults.  Users may still turn this back on by specifying 
USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults" in make.conf.  Interested in 
figuring out what use flags were turned off?  Check out 
/usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files 
that correspond to your profile.

If I have some spare time I will add a FAQ question on the project page 
as well.  Once again I apologize for this.  It was actually done quite 
some time ago (January?) and no one ever added it and it was basically 
forgotten.
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