Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
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 19:43:56
Message-Id: 20060807194235.GD14616@seldon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853) by Alec Warner
1 On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:01:12AM +0000, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > Zac Medico wrote:
3 >
4 > >Users can unforce them via /etc/portage/profile/{use.force,package.use.force} in the usual "-flag" way.
5 >
6 > Why new files? Why isn't this just pushed into the use stacking order
7 > over-ridable by the user (default USE flags, and not forcing)?
8 >
9 > Then they can over-ride it in package.use just like they do now?
10
11 Semantics of USE=-gtk not working on a package that has gtk forced
12 doesn't sound all that nice btw; if it's conditional yet the user has
13 to disable it via profile files..
14
15
16 > ----------------
17 >
18 > Brian, default USE in IUSE is not a backwards compatable change and this
19 > is easier ;)
20
21 An EAPI bump is pretty simple from where I'm sitting, and implementing
22 it isn't all that hard.
23
24 Meanwhile, the question should be "which is desirable", not "which can
25 I glue in quickest" ;)
26
27 ~harring

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