Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:47 pm, Alec Warner wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote:
> >>Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote:
> >>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use
> >>>> flags. 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 local use flag.
> >>>
> >>>i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-*
> >>
> >>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 to
> >>have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on.
> >><snip>
> >
> > 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
> > 'no*' USE flags from portage
>
> And we should keep the current shitty behavior to accomediate cxx why?
> What is so hard about USE="-* cxx"?  Are there no other flags that do
> bad things when they aren't turned on via use.defaults and profiles?

i only said keep nocxx

there is nothing hard about USE="-* cxx" but while most here want to say 'fuck 
the users' (and i'm inclined to agree), i'd rather not field those 
bugs/questions/etc...
-mike

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