From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMnmo-000445-J3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:10:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3E03E03BA; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B30DE03BA for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232D78D306 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:20:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id r2MKHrvGqQQe for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:20:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704BA8D305 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:20:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:09:59 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: VDB access Message-ID: <20080206170959.40665800@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <47A95708.6070402@gentoo.org> References: <20080205010546.38414ec3@snowcone> <20080205084355.45ade352@gentoo.org> <20080205190224.59268128@snowcone> <47A95708.6070402@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/ThOxY6ggf2YspPs0M.=oQln"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 94b70d20-85f0-44ad-8f10-241dc5aed244 X-Archives-Hash: 125567440a89e14747133189065afe00 --Sig_/ThOxY6ggf2YspPs0M.=oQln Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:43:20 +0200 Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > Incidentally, if anyone is still thinking that built_with_use is > > fine... It doesn't handle IUSE defaults, which means package > > managers have to store a hacked version of IUSE in VDB for EAPI 1. > > This isn't documented anywhere and is highly unobvious. >=20 > I don't understand this. IUSE defaults affect whether a use flag is > on or off when installing the ebuild. Why would it need to be stored > in the VDB? There should only be a need of the value of $USE. Please > elaborate. VDB stores exact copies of ebuild metadata variables, except for IUSE. IUSE is the only one that gets modified by the package manager. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/ThOxY6ggf2YspPs0M.=oQln Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqenp96zL6DUtXhERAtRGAJ4lB4neVlZyT1famoMkpTunVhYelQCg2lic f7ZNucDeVGjYzGamGR67ih0= =tSPR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ThOxY6ggf2YspPs0M.=oQln-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list