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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:14:18 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:03:05 +0200 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > No, you're not guaranteed to get the ebuild's value of IUSE, or |
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> > > any particular eclass's value of IUSE, or the merged value of |
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> > > IUSE. In particular for this case, it's possible to get false |
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> > > negatives. |
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> > Then fix the spec. |
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> The spec accurately reflects the mess that is global and metadata |
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> variables. Portage has historically done all kinds of different things |
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> here (sometimes varying depending upon whether you're a binary, |
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> whether things are being loaded from VDB, whether env saving has |
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> happened previously etc), and the code is rather sensitive to |
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> apparently minor changes in bash versions. Thus we don't provide |
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> guarantees. |
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The historical mess is not relevant anymore. Is there a single real case |
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when IUSE does not contain *at least* the ebuild-set IUSE? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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