Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) Updates

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:12:19 +0100 Peter Ruskin
<Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
| > | I still don't see the need for all this grouping stuff, but if
| > | we're going to get it, will USE="@KDE -@GNOME" gtk work - I mean,
| > | wil it result in USE="kde qt arts gtk"?
| >
| > Yes. It'll also result in USE="-X"...
| 
| Well, that's a bit scary and not exactly intuitive.

Which is why I'm discouraging -@GROUPS for people who don't know what
they're doing. Although, if you understand how it works, it's entirely
obvious...

|  I'm already
| seeing lots of doubled-up use flags when I use the -v switch with
| emerge (e.g. -debug -debug)

That's a 2.0.50 bug that doesn't exist in 2.0.51, and it's purely
cosmetic. The USE flags are being doubled up because they're specified
twice.

|  and that leads to my having less
| confidence in the professional management of the Gentoo project.

I believe I speak for all of us when I say "huh?".

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