From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3FDFCJs005089 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:15:12 GMT Received: from p061198141037.ppp.prin.ne.jp ([61.198.141.37] helo=linux.box) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQew-0000CU-2z for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:15:00 +0000 Received: by linux.box (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93F11467BF; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:14:59 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND additions Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:14:59 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504132048.27042.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200504142326.32477.jstubbs@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200504142326.32477.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504152214.59110.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 891adcd8-a2da-4397-962e-16bab991bddd X-Archives-Hash: c8b58c7174b09e14350fe8dcb50b63d0 On Thursday 14 April 2005 23:26, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:48, 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. > > Just to be specific on this, the corner case is users still using a flat > profile that upgrade to 2.0.51.20. Those users won't have USE_EXPAND active > _at all_. The flat profile cannot be fixed for this because of a bug in > 2.0.50 that'll make it traceback on any operation. If this actually scared anybody (that received it), my apologies. I was confused about bugs. Fixing the flat profiles will be problem either. The bug is that 2.0.50 will die if two profiles in a cascade define the same variable. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list