From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:01:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080916060146.GL22844@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CEC387.9000200@gentoo.org>
On 15-09-2008 13:20:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> > For future EAPIs, ARCH could be a regular USE_EXPANDed flag as you
> > suggest, and package managers could filter any flag in USE which is
> > not listed in IUSE.
>
> While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that
> most people tend to think that certain profile-specific flags such
> as userland_* and kernel_* should be considered as implicit members
> of IUSE and therefore they shouldn't be explicitly listed in in IUSE.
Yes, IMO mainly because they should never explicitly be set by users, so
they shouldn't get a hint they can set it either.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-15 19:45 [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE Vlastimil Babka
2008-09-15 20:01 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-09-15 20:20 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-16 6:01 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2008-09-16 6:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-17 15:07 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-17 16:19 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 16:19 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-09-28 16:32 ` Zac Medico
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