From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] some global useflags
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016001927.31544b1f@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015214706.GZ23490@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Utterly illegal, needs to die.
>
> Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I
> don't consider it illegal either.
It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based
upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will
show the wrong information at --pretend time. See bug #24439, for
example.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 16:36 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] some global useflags Markus Meier
2008-10-15 16:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-15 19:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-15 20:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-16 21:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-16 21:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-18 12:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-19 5:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-10-19 11:42 ` [gentoo-dev] [project] " Steve Long
2008-10-20 6:19 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] " Alec Warner
2008-10-22 10:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2008-10-15 21:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson
2008-10-15 23:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-10-16 0:18 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-19 5:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
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