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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:05:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080916070509.47b0ed7d@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080916060146.GL22844@gentoo.org>

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:01:46 +0200
Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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.

That's covered by USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-16  6:05 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
2008-09-16  6:05       ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
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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