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 1ESilB-00017a-2d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:19:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9KMGscE032712; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:16:54 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 j9KMFBp4009963 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:15:12 GMT Received: from [35.9.44.36] (guarana [35.9.44.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9KMHlcQ008649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:17:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4358178B.1030801@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:17:47 -0400 From: Alec Warner 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: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 References: <4357432E.2020009@gentoo.org> <200510202125.08983.danarmak@gentoo.org> <200510202135.48692@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200510202340.59246.carlo@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200510202340.59246.carlo@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9KMGsdo032712 X-Archives-Salt: c61307ae-0999-4f15-a83c-0f9e2af72ad9 X-Archives-Hash: ac4f9ad46f990c6657c530263d5458e9 Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:35, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 wrote: >=20 >>Too many people using -* (due to auto flags) so that will break for mos= t of >>them. >=20 >=20 > So we have the three things we should deprecate in a single thread: >=20 > a) no* flags > b) auto flags > c) -* and - for all architectures in one ebuild. >=20 > How about tackling that now, instead living with the consequences for y= et=20 > another unknown while? >=20 >=20 > Carsten All of these are basically hacks around portage deficiences. The=20 portage team knows of them, the portage team is working to make sure=20 they aren't needed in the future. However none of the fixes will be out=20 'soon', so unless you have patches to fix them or suggestions that don't=20 involve code changes, there isn't much that can be done. --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list