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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:26:38
Message-Id: 200506132327.08662@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support by Alec Warner
1 On Monday 13 June 2005 23:08, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > How is this not just a consequence of USE="-*"...that is what this does;
3 > turns off ALL use flags. How is use.force ( or the concept thereof )
4 > not breaking the 'easy' interpretation of USE="-*" because now things
5 > aren't -*, they are -* + use.force things.
6 It's exactly what we want to avoid, -* everything can breaks things for
7 useflags like uclibc (now replaced by elibc_uclibc) and hardened and so on
8 which needs to be enabled *everytime*.
9
10 --
11 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
12 Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)
13
14 http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>