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Peter Gordon wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> The difference with use.force is that it prevents flags, that are deemed |
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>> extremely important, from being accidentally disabled by the user. |
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> If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional, |
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> and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something? |
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Yes. Some flags are extremely important to certain users (read: profiles) but |
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not to others. In some cases the USE flag are so extremely important because |
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they are more or less what makes the whole profile. Think of 'selinux' or |
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'multilib'. |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2316 |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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