Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] default USE flags in IUSE
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:59:00
Message-Id: 1136246294.8779.40.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] default USE flags in IUSE by Alec Warner
1 On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 16:10 -0500, Alec Warner wrote:
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5 > Disclaimer: This is nowhere near done, mostly looking to start a
6 > conversation with people about stuff it's missing, and ways to improve,
7 > mostly it was a proof of concept. However please try it out and play
8 > with it a bit, find issues, etc..
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10 > included is a patch against 2.1_pre3-r1.
11 > Also included is the ebuild I used to test fun things with. The ebuild
12 > doesn't pass QA, I know :P
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14 I would like to have the option to opt-out of having these flags
15 enabled. This way, the average user would not need to worry about
16 enabling flags, and the advanced user (opting out) doesn't have 'magic'
17 happen behind their back.
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19 The IUSE as you have in the sample.ebuild can be thought as the
20 recommended default use-flags.
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22 -Lares
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] default USE flags in IUSE Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>