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 1EIZDk-00003F-75 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:07:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8MLxDpG012173; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:59:13 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8MLtNUg029503 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:55:23 GMT Received: from [35.9.44.33] (caffeine [35.9.44.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8MM1aab016127 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <433329BF.5090703@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:01:35 -0400 From: warnera6 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) 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: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources References: <431C97C4.3070406@gentoo.org> <1126203005.5845.81.camel@alto> <200509082017.33985@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1126206101.9553.5.camel@localhost> <1127338088.3238.36.camel@login.blenning.no> <4331D9A9.9090205@egr.msu.edu> <1127420915.23254.24.camel@login.blenning.no> In-Reply-To: <1127420915.23254.24.camel@login.blenning.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d583a29b-cf03-4b4b-883a-dfeaebe42dbf X-Archives-Hash: b58912e934c1142686fead9ffd7f6200 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > The average gentoo users are not stupid. Many people would not agree with that statement ;) > come so far as to adjust something beyond the most basic USE flags at > all, you're probably advanced enough to deciphre such a message. (It > would be nice to have some knowledge of who the average gentoo user is > though.) > > Now as for the USE flag system. It has actually become so big that it's > difficult to use it effectively. There is a USE flag group GLEP that is being implemented...sometime ;) I don't think masking USE flags has come up...*pokes portage people* >>Also might want to submit the ebuild to breakmygentoo or some other >>overlay. > > > I'll consider it, but as mentioned above it's really a change to an > eclass. You can put eclasses in the overlay as well IIRC. -Alec Warner (antarus) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list