Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives

[Jerome Brown <jerome@hub.net.nz>]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:14 +1300, Jerome Brown wrote:
> 
>>How about another option?
>>
>>6) Disallow -USE within groups, but allow -@GROUP
> 
> 
<snip>
> Then again, I don't think that flags should be specified in more than
> one group.
> 
> If it doesn't fit into a group, then don't group it.  If it fits into
> multiple groups, then either pick one and stick with it, or don't group
> it.

I agree on this point, but wonder if it will be too restrictive to
enforce. Also, with to proposal to allow users to create their own
groups, they may want a unique combination of flags which they setup in
their overlay, which would violate the only in one group idea.

The other place that a flag may need to be in multiple groups could be
where local use flags are concerned, and they are related differently.
(I know this is an unlikely situation, but then we are Gentoo Users and
want to push the environs of what is possible/reasonable :) )

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