Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The purpose of USE flags
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:23:05
Message-Id: 20031214232302.34466a1b.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The purpose of USE flags by "Sami Näätänen"
1 Hi,
2
3 personally I really dislike this proposal as it adds a lot of complexity
4 for functionality that would rarely be used. Also IMO USE flags should
5 not prevent the installation of a package, that's the job of masking.
6
7 Marius
8
9 --
10 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
11
12 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
13 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The purpose of USE flags Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The purpose of USE flags "Sami Näätänen" <sn.ml@××××××××.com>