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On 10 February 2016 at 09:35, Róbert Čerňanský <openhs@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> The question is whether you really need to specify the lazy use flag |
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> explicitly. I would say that any flag which user did not set |
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> explicitly to -baz or baz could be considered as lazy use flag. |
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> So if I'd have 'baz' set in /etc/portage/make.conf, |
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> /etc/portage/package.use, USE environment variable or other user |
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> configuration then I'd clearly want to turn on baz (globally or for |
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> specific packages). Portage would not change the use flag in this |
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> case (again globally or for particular packages only). |
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> On the other side, if I would not specify 'baz' in any of those user |
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> configurations (so it would be specified only in profile, ebuild or |
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> nowhere at all) then I most likely would not care about it therefore |
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> portage can enable or disable it as needed. |
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> BTW, what you are describing is essentially the same as in this bug: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258371. It was also discussed |
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> on this list couple of times. I too would very much like to see it in |
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> portage. |
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I'd personally rather the list of "automatically turn this on if |
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required" be something I had the power to restrict than have a blanket |
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"autodostuff", because in the event some USE can't be satisfied, the |
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first time that USE flag was deemed "Needed" I'd want to be told that |
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it was needed, and be prompted to chose a solution. |
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Because I may choose to: |
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- Deem the use flag necessary long term and put it hard on |
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- Deem the use flag and its dependencies unwanted and find an |
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alternative dependency graph somehow ( which may even include not |
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installing the package that triggered the bad dependency graph ) |
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An "autodostuff" as opposed to an "autoenable in these conditions" to |
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me runs against the gentoo "user decides" mentality, because "just |
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turn on useflags I didn't even tell you to enable" strikes me more as |
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Portage telling me what I can and can't do, and it might even make me |
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avoid that feature. |
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( I don't actually use --autounmask-write for this reason, I peruse |
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the suggested USE requirements and change my configuration the way I |
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want it done instead ) |
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