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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] allow people to disambiguate built_with_use in upgrade situations
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:31:45
Message-Id: 1168993850.1871.15.camel@onyx.private.gni.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] allow people to disambiguate built_with_use in upgrade situations by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > Diego is proposing a new flag to built_with_use to handle the corner case
3 > where you query a package that does not have the requested flag in IUSE
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5 > built_with_use [--missing <action>] ...
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7 > so in the case of version transitions, you can specify the <action> as either
8 > true, false, or die (only current option)
9 >
10 > seems like a cleaner solution than forcing what can be a rats nest of
11 > has_version checks
12 > -mike
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15 I'd agree. The built_with_use is a thorn in the side with the existing
16 behavior. Adding --missing yes|no 0|1 would be nice.
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