Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:23:43
Message-Id: 20100215222311.4fc179cf@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:28:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > The USE flag changed at 1.1.6-r1 from nonfsv4 to nfsv4 so if you did
4 > not change USE you will get the exact opposite support between the
5 > earliest and most recent version in portage.
6 >
7 > <pet hate>
8 > Don't you just hate negative USE flags on the lines of no* ? You have
9 > to switch then on to not get something. Far better to have a positive
10 > flag and enable it by default in the profile. Not to mention the
11 > confusion that changing it later causes, witness this case here.
12
13 Yes, but it's changing now. The reason the ebuild has changed from nonfs4
14 to nfs4 is that it is now possible to turn the flag on by default in the
15 ebuild, which is particularly useful for local flags that can't be set in
16 a profile.
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.

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