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

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:21:45 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:

> 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...

Didn't say it's a bad idea, but it's one of those things that creates a
lot of noise.

Marius
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