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Quoth Jason Rhinelander: |
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> Ignoring ufed for the moment, this brings up an interesting idea - is |
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> there any reason portage couldn't dynamically manage the |
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> /etc/portage/package.use file, so that: |
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> USE="foo -bar" emerge somepackage |
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> would add |
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> cat-name/somepackage foo -bar |
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> to package.use? That means a user could update packages and have them |
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> installed the same way (unless, of course, I decided to specify a |
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> differense USE= or changed package.mask). |
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This is a great idea, IMO. The only thing that I would add is that we would |
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need a new command-line switch to emerge, something like --save-use. This way, |
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the default behaviour of emerge would not change, and people relying on it |
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would not get stung. People like me who would use the feature would just be |
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required to use the new switch. |
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