From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:04:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19379.11335.146404.478975@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331104647.GD11663@hrair>
>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Brian Harring wrote:
> Not just my proposal- council contradicted it via even letting
> pkg_pretend into EAPI3 (now EAPI4):
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org/msg00493.html
It says "displaying conflicting USE flags" which doesn't necessarily
imply that the ebuild should fail.
> I honestly consider the ebuild silently making decisions on the
> user's behalf *worse*.
Right, this is exactly what we should decide on, before talking about
possible implementations.
We already have enough issues with circular dependencies, and I'm
sceptical about adding additional failures on USE flag conflicts.
Display a warning, but don't error out.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 9:20 [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative Brian Harring
2010-03-31 9:48 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Ulrich Mueller
2010-03-31 10:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 11:04 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2010-03-31 11:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Brian Harring
2010-03-31 15:38 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-03-31 11:18 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Piotr Jaroszyński
2010-04-01 20:44 ` Róbert Čerňanský
2010-04-01 21:51 ` Zac Medico
[not found] ` <201003312316.23806.ali_bush@gentoo.org>
2010-03-31 10:57 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 17:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alex Alexander
2010-03-31 19:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 19:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 7:31 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 7:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 7:56 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:10 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:42 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:59 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 11:38 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 10:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 11:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 17:04 ` David Leverton
2010-04-01 18:39 ` Dror Levin
2010-04-01 18:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-02 22:36 ` David Leverton
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