Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

[Alec Warner]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote:
>
>>Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote:
>>>
>>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
>>>>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask
>>>>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by
>>>>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local
>>>>use flag.
>>>
>>>i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-*
>>
>>noFOO is used because "FOO" is on by default, and noFOO turns it off.
>>AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and to
>>have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on.
>><snip>
>
>
> that was a great explanation however irrelevant it may have been
>
> i guess we will have to make 'nocxx' a special case as we strip all other
> 'no*' USE flags from portage
> -mike
>

And we should keep the current shitty behavior to accomediate cxx why?
What is so hard about USE="-* cxx"?  Are there no other flags that do
bad things when they aren't turned on via use.defaults and profiles?

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