Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Marius Mauch wrote:
> Petteri Räty wrote:
> 
>> Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
>> 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 local
>> use flag.
> 
> 
> The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g.
> profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has
> "USE=-bar", which one should be preferred?
> Current rules say that /etc/portage/package.use overrides make.conf, and
> user config overrides profiles, the proposal would create a new
> unintuitive situation between those two.
> Depending on the answer on this it also has some technical implications
> with the way package.use support is implemented currently. In short it's
>  not a trivial thing to do.
> 
> Marius

Gentoo being about choice the new package.use should come before
anything user set. I do not see any problem with this if it works in the
same way as package.mask already works. Please, enlighten me.

Regards,
Petteri Räty


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