From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making USE_EXPANDed variables incremental
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102211419.5b5685f1@delenn.genone.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070101211247.730788c9@maya>
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.
Marius
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-01 21:12 [gentoo-dev] RFC: making USE_EXPANDed variables incremental Stephen Bennett
2007-01-01 21:24 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-01-01 21:44 ` Simon Stelling
2007-01-01 22:49 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-01-01 23:27 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-01-01 23:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-01-01 23:47 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-01-02 1:24 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-01-02 2:03 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-01-02 2:21 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-01-02 20:14 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2007-01-02 20:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-01-02 20:34 ` Marius Mauch
2007-01-02 21:02 ` Josh Saddler
2007-01-02 21:06 ` Stephen Bennett
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