From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:56:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331205628.368fb02c@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331194626.GG11663@hrair>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 878 bytes --]
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:46:26 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actual name I don't hugely care about, I'm more interested in
> ensuring we don't rule out doing use cycle breaking via a bad design
> decision.
Cycle breaking requires explicit instructions from the ebuilds in
question (many of which are system things, which further complicates it)
along with support from Portage, so it's a distant future, lot of work
thing.
Since we need pkg_pretend to cover all the things that aren't use flag
related anyway, it makes sense to just go with that rather than
delaying things even further. When in the distant future Portage
becomes able to deal with cycle breaking, ebuilds can be converted to
use something like VALID_USE when they're also updated to export
information on which of their flags can safely be toggled.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 9:20 [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative Brian Harring
2010-03-31 9:48 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Ulrich Mueller
2010-03-31 10:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 11:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2010-03-31 11:11 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 15:38 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-03-31 11:18 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] " Piotr Jaroszyński
2010-04-01 20:44 ` Róbert Čerňanský
2010-04-01 21:51 ` Zac Medico
[not found] ` <201003312316.23806.ali_bush@gentoo.org>
2010-03-31 10:57 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 17:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alex Alexander
2010-03-31 19:46 ` Brian Harring
2010-03-31 19:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-04-01 7:31 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 7:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 7:56 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:10 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 10:42 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2010-04-01 10:59 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 11:38 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 10:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 11:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-01 11:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-01 17:04 ` David Leverton
2010-04-01 18:39 ` Dror Levin
2010-04-01 18:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-02 22:36 ` David Leverton
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100331205628.368fb02c@snowmobile \
--to=ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox