From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESmSG-0005VN-Jk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:16:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9L2Da5s017428; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:13:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9L2Bodk012972 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:11:51 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESmQQ-0001yK-Km for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:14:30 +0000 Received: (qmail 17887 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2005 22:13:10 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2005 22:13:10 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:16:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <43581061.5090102@gentoo.org> <200510202146.03500.vapier@gentoo.org> <43584C5A.6080200@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43584C5A.6080200@egr.msu.edu> 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-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510202216.54195.vapier@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9L2Bodk012972 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9L2Da7U017428 X-Archives-Salt: 81462412-f031-4051-9f9e-0413644bba19 X-Archives-Hash: 1671e0c0e9eb294ecd93963b640e2c36 On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: > >>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use fla= gs. > >>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask > >>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags= by > >>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every loc= al > >>use flag. > > > > i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=3D-* > > noFOO is used because "FOO" is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. > AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and t= o > have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on. > that was a great explanation however irrelevant it may have been i guess we will have to make 'nocxx' a special case as we strip all other= =20 'no*' USE flags from portage -mike --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list