Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

[Alec Warner]

Sven Wegener wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:16:18PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:40:48 +0200
>>Sven Wegener <swegener@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the
>>>idea of an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to
>>>force some USE flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not
>>>possible to disable this flag by make.conf, the environment or
>>>package.use. But we would not be Gentoo, if we don't leave a
>>>backdoor. You can disable the flag by putting -flag in /etc/
>>>portage/profile/use.force if you really need to. Same goes for
>>>sub-profiles that need to disable this flag.
>>>
>>>
>>Why a file rather than a make.default variable? I'm thinking of
>>something like REQUIRED_USE, which would behave just like USE and
>>friends (the so called "incremental" vars in portage). Its
>>contents could simply be added to USE after all other steps of
>>there respective "incrementation" (profiles, make.conf, user
>>env, etc.). And sure there would also be a REQUIRED_USE_EXPAND
>>var, similar in purpose to the existing USE_EXPAND but targeting
>>REQUIRED_USE, where important things like USERLAND or ELIBC could
>>be moved.
>>
>>
>
>The result is the same. I prefer to use files, because they yield better
>cvs diff results. Seeing someone change the REQUIRED_USE line involves
>looking over the complete line to find the changes. We could split the
>line over multiple lines to make it easier, but then we could just use a
>flat file. Well we're talking about a couple of flags here, but we don't
>know what we'll use these REQUIRE_USE for in the future
>
>
>
I like this a lot better, although I know ferringb hates it ;)
Putting them in a seperate var means USE="-*" doesn't break stuff and 
moves the issue of required
flags to a seperate area.  You could even use a file, if that floats 
your boat.

-- 
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list