Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for IUSE defaults

[Daniel Campbell]

On 02/09/2017 12:25 PM, Ben Kohler wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o
> <mailto:zlg@g.o>> wrote:
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>     I support the idea of a profile-set variable that determines whether or
>     not IUSE is respected. Minimalists get their systems faster, we get
>     something that adds to Gentoo's versatility and an additional profile.
>     Of course, we should be asking the anti-IUSE people if that would be
>     good enough to make the profiles/systems they want possible.
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>     Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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> Can't this already be accomplished by modifying the USE_ORDER variable?
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> -Ben
That's a great question. Based on a cursory look at make.conf's manpage,
USE_ORDER without 'pkginternal' will ignore IUSE defaults as intended.

So if we change that from what I assume to be the default (found in the
manpage), a minimalist profile (or system) should be using:

USE_ORDER = "env:pkg:conf:defaults:repo:env.d"

If that gets combined with a profile meant explicitly for this
bare-bones use case, then I don't see why we can't make that happen. It
just requires someone who knows the use case to build the profile.

Thanks for pointing this out!

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