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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE and userland_, elibc_, kernel_, etc.
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:06:15
Message-Id: 472E25E8.6080002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE and userland_, elibc_, kernel_, etc. by Mike Frysinger
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4 Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > userland_* and all other profile-expanded USE flags are "magical" and arent
6 > available for user consumption. that is how i view IUSE. it was my
7 > understanding that portage was going to get fixed to automatically include
8 > the profile-expanded ones and so adding anything to IUSE now for ebuilds is
9 > dumb when they're just going to get turned around and removed. the same goes
10 > for all implicit/automatic USE expanding things. portage can do this for us,
11 > so having developers track it themselves seems like a waste of time.
12 > -mike
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14 Fair enough, but we need to define a way to "automatically include
15 the profile-expanded ones" since none currently exists. One thing
16 that I don't like about using USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN is that ARCH isn't a
17 USE_EXPAND. It would have been more consistent if it had been,
18 along with KERNEL, ELIBC, and USERLAND.
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20 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE and userland_, elibc_, kernel_, etc. Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>