Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting rid of lurking no* USE flags - profile-based package.use

[Jason Smathers]

On 10/2/07, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Before dberholz complains about my next commit, given that we have
> support in profiles for package.use, how soon can we start to use it to
> replace the old crufty no* flags (particularly ones that are critical to
> a system).


I like the default use flag solution, which seems to be introduced with
portage 2.1.2.  This way you can replace nofoo with foo and
IUSE="+foo" if you want it to default on.

When will the portage 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 ebuilds will be dropped?

With either solution, when updating existing ebuilds, how do you alert
users that they must change use flag nofoo to -foo if they want to
maintain nofoo functionality?

Regards,
Jason Smathers