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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:24:20
Message-Id: 5310A977.3090109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild? by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 28/02/14 17:24, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 02/28/2014 08:28 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> It would be very helpful if INSTALL_MASK could be overriden from an
4 >> ebuild, if user hasn't
5 >> set otherwise.
6 >> So it could be configured like USE_ORDER which is
7 >> "env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:repo:env.d"
8 >> So INSTALL_MASK_ORDER like "ebuild:${user's own INSTALL_MASK}"
9 >> This would be very helpful in preventing people from shooting themself
10 >> in the foot
11 >>
12 >> The only problem is that I propably don't have enough python skills to
13 >> make that happen w/
14 >> sys-apps/portage. But does the suggestion make sense? Should I open a
15 >> feature request bug?
16 >>
17 > What would be the purpose? Can you give me a use case.
18 >
19
20 I already did, earlier in this thread. Please refer to it.