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On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> Seems like use.force might be a bad name..... when I first read the |
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> email, and saw use.force, the first thing that came to mind was |
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> "gentoo forcing something?" and even after reading the email, I |
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> wouldn't expect to be able to override something that was "forced." |
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> I'm not sure what a better name would be, but I think there may be |
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> one... |
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> also, wouldn't the override be in use.unforce? >_< |
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what about just a use.env? |
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> On 6/13/05, Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Sven Wegener wrote: |
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>>> We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the |
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>>> idea of |
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>>> an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force |
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>>> some USE |
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>>> flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable |
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>>> this |
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>>> flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would |
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>>> not be |
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>>> Gentoo, if we don't leave a backdoor. You can disable the flag by |
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>>> putting -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force if you really |
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>>> need to. |
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>>> Same goes for sub-profiles that need to disable this flag. |
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>> Yay! |
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>>> I gues use.force has some other places where it is useful. Like the |
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>>> default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos" |
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>>> but the |
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>>> ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the |
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>>> environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be |
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>>> turned |
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>>> on. |
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>>> |
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>> It'll be also very useful for the amd64 profiles as in 2005.0 the use |
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>> flag 'multilib' is disabled but multilib-support is forced. (There |
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>> are |
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>> no-multilib-profiles though.) |
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>>> Comments? |
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>> I consider use.force very useful, it'll finally make all the amd64 |
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>> users |
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>> stop asking themselves why the documenation says they will get |
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>> multilib |
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>> but the use flag is disabled, so please, go ahead implementing it. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> blubb |
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>> Simon Stelling |
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>> Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead |
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>> blubb@g.o |
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