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 1EdFTT-0006FH-Er for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:16:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAINGDBt000541; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:16:13 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 jAINETHP013534 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:14:29 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EdFR7-0006yw-4b; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:14:29 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:14:29 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Message-ID: <20051118231429.GA2777@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> <20051118154312.GF24327@toucan.gentoo.org> <1726602389.20051118165931@gentoo.org> <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: f5b53d63-b3b5-42fe-8d86-ad3608423e40 X-Archives-Hash: 05275121506e2c3cb6c386cdcb26229d On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -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 > > 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. or we can just remove the dark magic and be done with it use.defaults is almost like letting ./configure scripts auto detect settings on the fly imho -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list