Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making USE_EXPANDed variables incremental

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:19 +0100 Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:12:47 +0000
| Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > Following a discussion in #gentoo-portage earlier this evening, it
| > was suggested that I send out an RFC email for this. So, does anyone
| > object to requiring that any variable listed in USE_EXPAND be
| > treated as incremental, at least as far as profile inheritance is
| > concerned?
| 
| The main problem I see is that if it's becoming a real incremental
| (across all config layers) it would change behavior for users as
| they'd need to prefix their use-expanded vars with -* to retain their
| current config. But I guess that's why you added that final clause
| about profile scope.

You know, making users do that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing... I
know that Paludis users like having the option of inheriting defaults
from the profile for expanded vars...

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Ciaran McCreesh
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