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From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:47:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710224711.2e52dc11@eusebe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707101630.42100.vapier@gentoo.org>

On 2007/07/10, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than
> the -* case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags
> 

To address only the default behavior, adding "foo" to the profile USE
instead of using a "nofoo" flag would have been enough.  This could
have been done long ago, but my understanding has always been that it
was not considered a good enough solution because it was not -*-proof.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-10  4:58 [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example William Hubbs
2007-07-10  5:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-10  8:31   ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-10  9:04     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-10 16:12   ` Thilo Bangert
2007-07-10 19:44     ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2007-07-10 20:30       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-10 20:47         ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour [this message]
2007-07-10 21:32           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-15  9:53             ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2007-07-15 11:57               ` Marius Mauch
2007-07-15 12:53                 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2007-07-15 19:22               ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-15 20:24                 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2007-07-15 21:21                   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-16 11:42                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long

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