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 1ESmz9-0005fB-7v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:50:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9L2l34Y020316; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:47:03 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 j9L2jGcA010057 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:45:16 GMT Received: from [69.176.143.101] (69-176-143-101.dov.spartan-net.net [69.176.143.101]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9L2luLq020519 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:47:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <435856DB.4080206@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:47:55 -0400 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050806) 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] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use References: <43581061.5090102@gentoo.org> <200510202146.03500.vapier@gentoo.org> <43584C5A.6080200@egr.msu.edu> <200510202216.54195.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200510202216.54195.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j9L2l36A020316 X-Archives-Salt: 4d481aca-29eb-462e-b692-a32b030b5f2c X-Archives-Hash: c935b373729bf2c3e7b3750e2fb0a46f Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: >=20 >>Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: >>> >>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use fla= gs. >>>>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask >>>>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags= by >>>>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every loc= al >>>>use flag. >>> >>>i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=3D-* >> >>noFOO is used because "FOO" is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. >>AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and t= o >>have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on. >> >=20 >=20 > that was a great explanation however irrelevant it may have been >=20 > i guess we will have to make 'nocxx' a special case as we strip all oth= er=20 > 'no*' USE flags from portage > -mike >=20 And we should keep the current shitty behavior to accomediate cxx why? What is so hard about USE=3D"-* cxx"? Are there no other flags that do bad things when they aren't turned on via use.defaults and profiles? --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list