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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH gentoolkit] eclean: Add --changed-iuse flag
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 05:18:21
Message-Id: f227eb84-f211-fec2-32dc-9a3bfc81546f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH gentoolkit] eclean: Add --changed-iuse flag by Matt Turner
1 On 1/2/21 4:08 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > Allows binpkgs to be deleted if they are not usable due to IUSE changes.
3 > ---
4 > Just kind of spitballing. I'm not sure about what USE flags we should
5 > ignore or whether it should be configurable, etc. On one hand, deleting
6 > binpkgs that don't have a newly added PYTHON_TARGET option might make
7 > sense if your binhost is configured to rebuild the package. On the
8 > other, you probably don't want to throw out amd64 binpkgs because
9 > abi_riscv_* was added.
10
11 The special case for abi_* flags is ugly. Why not do emerge emerge
12 --changed-use, and ignore changed IUSE for flags that aren't enabled?
13 --
14 Thanks,
15 Zac

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