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On 19:59 Sat 11 Jan , Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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> > >> Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > >> INSTALL_MASK="systemd bash-completion" |
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> > >> |
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> > >> What are your thoughts? |
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> > > It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. |
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> > > |
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> > > Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes |
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> > > the meaning of USE to be that everything not USEd is |
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> > > install-masked? |
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> > No, this would not be a duplicate. |
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> I did generalize, but think more about this - certainly for both |
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> Michał's examples I have already either set or unset "systemd" and |
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> "bash-completion" in USE. |
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It would largely be a duplicate, since we've already made a decision |
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about whether the ability to build without a feature is important enough |
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to merit a USE flag. This is essentially rethinking the same decision |
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and adding complexity to it. I think having this as an additional |
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feature in the core PM would be confusing to users. |
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It would probably be a better fit in gentoolkit or a similar tool. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> |
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Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/> |
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