From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] some global useflags
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:18:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016021816.dfbee025.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016001927.31544b1f@googlemail.com>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
There are also other issues, e.g. it breaks the generation of the
@installed package set as the installed slots can't be found in the
tree. As portage-2.2 makes increased use of slot atoms internally for
vdb handling we got a few bugreports simply due to the cache constraint
violation by USE=multislot.
Marius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 0:18 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
2008-10-16 0:18 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2008-10-19 5:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
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