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 1ESuoH-000034-JQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:11:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9LB8Ekp009786; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:08:14 GMT Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9LB537W024422 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:05:03 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AB3D4680 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:07:46 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4358CC24.6020404@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:08:20 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051020) 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> <4358BB36.1090902@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4358BB36.1090902@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8E88EBCA04FFCAEBB4C9FDF7" X-Archives-Salt: 406cb85f-e4a5-4372-8ce1-71bd29de6755 X-Archives-Hash: bcf8fd86911784b10fc11093805e3a4b This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8E88EBCA04FFCAEBB4C9FDF7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marius Mauch wrote: > Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >=20 >> Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flag= s. >> 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 loca= l >> use flag. >=20 >=20 > 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=3D-bar", which one should be preferred? > Current rules say that /etc/portage/package.use overrides make.conf, an= d > 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. >=20 > 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 R=C3=A4ty --------------enig8E88EBCA04FFCAEBB4C9FDF7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDWMwmcxLzpIGCsLQRAm9KAJ0RQI9ELFEUGcUeMqKicOX3ciNeywCcD6b3 7q+hlJXZs/wtPoN3zFRr348= =JyKA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8E88EBCA04FFCAEBB4C9FDF7-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list