From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESnNU-0001LI-KX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:15:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9L3Cgbj032633; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:12:42 GMT Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9L3AgR6016435 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:10:42 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.140.80]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IOO006PEWRM4S00@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:09:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cornholio (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336DA12361 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:09:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dnebinger) by cornholio with HTTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:09:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:09:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use In-reply-to: <200510202255.20547.vapier@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <36731.127.0.0.1.1129864161.squirrel@cornholio> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <43581061.5090102@gentoo.org> <200510202216.54195.vapier@gentoo.org> <435856DB.4080206@egr.msu.edu> <200510202255.20547.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 X-Archives-Salt: 5d1408c5-5b50-4765-8762-317097ca10f6 X-Archives-Hash: 9a88170bc7d3ca6a2c9337a13ec1a610 > there is nothing hard about USE="-* cxx" but while most here want to say > 'fuck > the users' (and i'm inclined to agree), i'd rather not field those > bugs/questions/etc... The average gentoo newbie is not going to know anything about "-*" in /etc/make.conf. Mostly it's folks that have been around for a system build or two before they start adding the "-*" at the beginning of their USE flags. I may be wrong but I don't believe the gentoo install doco even mentions "-*" as part of USE flag setup. So basically if only 'experienced', yet misguided, folks are using '-*', then the only bugs to come up from this would be ABKB bugs, leaving them with egg on their face for messing with '-*' in the first place. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list