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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 21 October 2005 02:44 am, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:56:57PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> > > Why single out this one?  ones system will not break irreperbly
> > > without a cxx compiler, it'll just cause a another recompile to get it
> > > to work after breakage if the person is using -* (which has already
> > > been said to be hackish and ill-advised, so doom on them!
> >
> > it will actually
> >
> > if you build gcc w/out C++ support that means no libstdc++
> >
> > no libstdc++ means python on most boxes is now broken
> >
> > no python means no emerge
> >
> > how exactly are you going to re-emerge gcc then ?  oh, you cant ...
>
> It could be handled the same way busybox handles USE=make-symlinks:
> simply abort unless the user makes it really clear via an extra variable
> that he knows what he's doing. A nocxx flag isn't necessary to protect
> users.

no, because then it makes it a pita for the people who legitimately use nocxx
-mike

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