Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:03:40
Message-Id: 44D70F68.6050206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853) by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
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3 >Users can unforce them via /etc/portage/profile/{use.force,package.use.force} in the usual "-flag" way.
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5 Why new files? Why isn't this just pushed into the use stacking order
6 over-ridable by the user (default USE flags, and not forcing)?
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8 Then they can over-ride it in package.use just like they do now?
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12 Brian, default USE in IUSE is not a backwards compatable change and this
13 is easier ;)
14
15 /me runs
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