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 1ET9Hy-0006zN-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:39:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9M2aLu5007925; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:36:21 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 j9M2YaSd013280 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:34:36 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET9GA-0000ts-Ea for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:37:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 19693 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2005 09:09:05 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 21 Oct 2005 09:09:05 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:10:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Harald van =?utf-8?q?D=C4=B3k?= References: <43581061.5090102@gentoo.org> <200510202256.57881.vapier@gentoo.org> <20051021064411.GB13083@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20051021064411.GB13083@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="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510210910.34664.vapier@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9M2YaSd013280 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9M2aLvf007925 X-Archives-Salt: 831ba438-4a61-42fa-84c8-cc731f2a2059 X-Archives-Hash: ddd269c85fb476413606310a91f6e024 On Friday 21 October 2005 02:44 am, Harald van D=C4=B3k 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=3Dmake-symlinks: > simply abort unless the user makes it really clear via an extra variabl= e > 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 n= ocxx -mike --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list