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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I8Lg0-0007QD-Os for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:47:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6AJkEaq022999; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:46:14 GMT Received: from smtp4.mail.easynet.fr (smarthost170.mail.easynet.fr [212.180.1.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6AJi8c5020302 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:44:08 GMT Received: from easyconnect2121138-64.clients.easynet.fr ([212.11.38.64] helo=eusebe) by smtp4.mail.easynet.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I8Ld2-0005ke-9D for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:44:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:44:02 +0200 From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example Message-ID: <20070710214402.0e9b79c0@eusebe> In-Reply-To: <200707101812.58384.bangert@gentoo.org> References: <20070710045824.GA6673@linux1> <200707100120.24726.vapier@gentoo.org> <200707101812.58384.bangert@gentoo.org> Organization: Fasmz X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.13; 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a1190b05-5b7c-454f-a208-2eaa53f6da63 X-Archives-Hash: 7434887485448dce76f7a45554c2fd48 On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert wrote: > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be > used... Because of the way USE flags stack in Portage (the USE_ORDER variable), IUSE defaults are not a solution for dropping no* flags: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43137/focus=43175 As Zac pointed out in his reply to this post, dropping nocxx and friends is more a job for use.force / package.use.force. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list