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On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:47 pm, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> >>Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >>>On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> >>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use |
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> >>>> flags. Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a |
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> >>>> package.mask file? This would make it possible for developers to turn |
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> >>>> on use flags by default in a way that would not cruft the base |
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> >>>> profiles for every local use flag. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* |
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> >> |
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> >>noFOO is used because "FOO" is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. |
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> >>AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and to |
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> >>have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on. |
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> >><snip> |
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> > |
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> > that was a great explanation however irrelevant it may have been |
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> > i guess we will have to make 'nocxx' a special case as we strip all other |
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> > 'no*' USE flags from portage |
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> And we should keep the current shitty behavior to accomediate cxx why? |
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> What is so hard about USE="-* cxx"? Are there no other flags that do |
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> bad things when they aren't turned on via use.defaults and profiles? |
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i only said keep nocxx |
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there is nothing hard about USE="-* cxx" but while most here want to say 'fuck |
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the users' (and i'm inclined to agree), i'd rather not field those |
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bugs/questions/etc... |
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-mike |
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