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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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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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Gentoo being about choice the new package.use should come before |
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anything user set. I do not see any problem with this if it works in the |
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same way as package.mask already works. Please, enlighten me. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri Räty |
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