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From: Jonathan Callen <abcd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:27:15
Message-Id: 4B296C50.6090709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib by Torsten Veller
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4 Torsten Veller wrote:
5 > Why is prefix not in IUSE?
6 >
7 > IUSE lists "the USE flags used by the ebuild.
8 > Historically, USE_EXPAND values and ARCH were not included..."
9 >
10 > prefix is not an ARCH.
11 >
12
13 While prefix is not an ARCH or a in USE_EXPANDed variable, it is
14 included in the list of implicit USE flags, which do not need to be
15 included in IUSE.
16
17 > BTW: don't we bump EAPI to not add this `use prefix ||...` test?
18
19 We could, if EAPI-3 were supported by portage (the support has not yet
20 been enabled) and the council okayed it to be used in the tree (which
21 has not yet occurred).
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23 - --
24 Jonathan Callen
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[gentoo-dev] Implicit IUSE Torsten Veller <ml-en@××××××.net>