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 1EdC3b-0003DU-24 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:37:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAIJZwcA013404; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:35:58 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 jAIJVZ2N022621 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:31:36 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EdBxP-0003Sg-C9 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:31:35 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EdBxN-0005JD-5E for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:31:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:31:30 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Message-ID: <20051118193130.71ded639@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> References: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> <20051118154312.GF24327@toucan.gentoo.org> <1726602389.20051118165931@gentoo.org> <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_3GK8iMLW.j7hTsd=wQ.01t."; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f88b90b9-93a8-461e-800d-e12ec39df137 X-Archives-Hash: a1dec3518220f60fe52534c78c290c50 --Sig_3GK8iMLW.j7hTsd=wQ.01t. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:18:58 -0800 Drake Wyrm wrote: | Jakub Moc wrote: | > Well, I don't think so... If I want to enable a feature for one | > specific ebuild and a USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use pulls in | > a dep, that in turn enables that use flag globally, it's obviously | > not what I intended and forces me to add yet another -flag into | > make.conf |=20 | If you don't want portage to employ dark magic in guessing which use | flags you want enabled, don't let it. Specify your use flags | explicitly. |=20 | Put USE=3D"-* oneuse twouse reduse blueuse" in make.conf to set the | globals, and _then_ start tweaking in "package.use". ...and then watch your system explode because you didn't set various USE flags which should only be turned off on embedded systems. use.defaults is bad, mkay? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_3GK8iMLW.j7hTsd=wQ.01t. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDfiwU96zL6DUtXhERAqwmAJ92CBABokoHHVjNMPrfkql3tUcivgCgh/YQ dsiTiRWMLKya1JOG1La98Lc= =T5OE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_3GK8iMLW.j7hTsd=wQ.01t.-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list