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 4.43) id 1ECPxp-0003Nw-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:01:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85MvP9f011395; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:57:25 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85MtiAe001404 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:55:44 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.115]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ECPvV-0001Fa-RC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:58:58 +0000 Message-ID: <431CCCDA.6030005@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:55:22 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <431036EA.8050401@gentoo.org> <20050827100130.GX1701@nightcrawler> In-Reply-To: <20050827100130.GX1701@nightcrawler> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dd3edd40-7ba0-47e8-8a47-99300df7a2fc X-Archives-Hash: d188b18b08b6df51c10a364be7c80371 Brian Harring wrote: > The thing to note is that if you're relying on negation, it's going to > bite you in the ass without efforts. A server subprofile pulling from > a parent that holds desktop cruft will be forced to either > A) reinvent the wheel (maintain their own USE list), as a sizable > chunk of users do via -* usage > B) or very carefully watch people screwing around with the parent, > tagging in a new desktop USE var, and adding the matching negation. One would hope that some minimal effort of communication to the maintainers of inheriting profiles by people changing the ancestor profiles would prevent the need for this. Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list