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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx2c4@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Forced/automatic USE flag constraints (codename: ENFORCED_USE)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:35:21
Message-Id: CAHmME9q7LctvWB7WZXukKXEt5ex7b4C0Dhwx6EPabpoHurA7vw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Forced/automatic USE flag constraints (codename: ENFORCED_USE) by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Secondly, it might be reasonable to provide configurable priorities for
4 > solving multi-flag constraints. For example, we could use rightmost-
5 > preferred logic for package.use, e.g.:
6 >
7 > */* PROVIDER_SSL: openssl gnutls
8 > dev-util/foo PROVIDER_SSL: polarssl
9 >
10 > which would mean that for all packages, gnutls is preferred over openssl
11 > (i.e. if ?? or ^^ applies, openssl will be disabled and gnutls will be
12 > used), and polarssl is additionally preferred over everything else for
13 > dev-util/foo.
14
15 Please, leftmost instead of rightmost?

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