From: Eldad Zack <eldad@gentoo.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:41:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093531283.20235.30.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408251814.14791.vapier@gentoo.org>
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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 01:14, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> actually, how is this for an idea ...
> instead of a file many people would have to update and sync across different
> profiles (huge pita, look at some of the virtual issues for example), what
> about if we extend the IUSE syntax ? then maintainers of their own ebuilds
> can determine 'default' USE setting on a per-package and even per-version
> basis ...
> now, whenever a user does not have 'justify' or 'mac' in their USE, either in
> the positive (USE=justify) or in the negative (USE=-justify), portage would
> turn around and add justify and mac to USE for this package/version for us
I think it is a great idea.
The only thing against it is that if a user didn't set the flag for
herself, and between versions the defaults have changed...
But on the other hand, it can be considered a good thing.
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Eldad Zack <eldad@gentoo.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-26 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 14:53 [gentoo-dev] New local or global USE flags for sdl bindings: noimage & nomixer Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-23 15:14 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-23 15:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 16:07 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-23 16:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 18:07 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-23 18:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 18:34 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-23 23:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 23:55 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-24 0:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-25 8:25 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-08-25 14:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-23 15:58 ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-23 18:13 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-23 18:14 ` Marius Mauch
2004-08-23 18:41 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-25 14:28 ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-08-25 22:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-25 22:29 ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-26 3:11 ` Andrew Ross
2004-08-26 6:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-25 22:29 ` Spider
2004-08-27 12:29 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-26 14:41 ` Eldad Zack [this message]
2004-08-27 12:23 ` Paul de Vrieze
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