From: David Leverton <levertond@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:04:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911032304.33752.levertond@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911031648.04090.patrick@gentoo.org>
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:48:03 Patrick Lauer wrote:
> To quote:
> "FEATURES is a portage specific package manager configuration variable not
> specified in PMS and cannot reliably be used in ebuilds or eclasses."
This has been the Portage team's position for years, since long before there
were PMS and other package managers. See
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82513#c16 for example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 15:48 [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 17:27 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-03 20:36 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 20:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-03 22:28 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-04 0:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-05 1:36 ` Ryan Hill
2009-11-05 4:56 ` [gentoo-dev] a pragmatic approach to FEATURES [was FEATURES use or misuse?] Brian Harring
2009-11-05 8:49 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-05 9:36 ` Brian Harring
2009-11-08 9:21 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-03 21:26 ` [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Alexis Ballier
2009-11-03 22:04 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 22:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-04 0:33 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 23:04 ` David Leverton [this message]
2009-11-04 1:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-11-04 22:12 ` Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-11-05 5:04 ` Brian Harring
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