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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND additions
From: Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 20:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Anyway, any objections against moving the current USE_EXPAND out of 
> make.globals and into base's make.defaults? Those using <=2.0.50* won't get 
> any additions (how it is now anyway) and anybody using a stacked profile 
> (which requires >=2.0.51) will get whatever is in make.globals overwritten 
> with whatever is in make.defaults.

Sounds good to me. Waiting on new portage releases for stuff we want to
use in ebuilds kinda sucks, so (up to a point) the more we can move into
profiles the better, as far as I'm concerned.

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