From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:31:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090302163115.GF1955@comet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eafa4c130903020827x712e99bbk3ea2b9f1e6d9650b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10:27 Mon 02 Mar , Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the
> > package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?
> >
> > To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still
> > have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use
> > which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are
> > adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> >
> Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at
> this point in time they really should.
If they don't, then they won't be able to install emacs anyway since all
its ebuilds have EAPI 1.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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2009-03-02 11:03 [gentoo-dev] package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults Ulrich Mueller
2009-03-02 16:27 ` Doug Goldstein
2009-03-02 16:31 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
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