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On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:49:40 -0400 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 15:18, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> > > Any chance of per-package USE defaults support? That's much more |
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> > > useful to me. |
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> > Attached to bug 61732 there's a patch that implements this via a new |
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> > IUSE_DEFAULTS ebuild variable. If people like that particular |
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> > implementation, then I'll update the patch so that it applies to |
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> > portage-2.1.1_pre. Some might suggest that an EAPI bump is proper |
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> > for the addition of this type of functionality, but perhaps we can |
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> > slide it in without that extra annoyance. |
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> i'm really really partial to overloading IUSE here rather than |
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> introducing a new variable ... |
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You mean by doing something like: |
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IUSE="alpha +beta gamma" |
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meaning beta is default-on? |
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Could do the same thing in per-package use.mask (although "mask" |
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becomes a misnomer at that point). |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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