Re: [gentoo-dev] Setting USE_EXPAND defaults in profiles (in some cases)

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> agaffney suggested this in the first place, and every time I think about
> it, it seems like a better idea. If we set VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES
> in the arch profiles, we get the arch-specific defaults we need without
> the really hugely ugly indecipherable mess in the ebuilds that nobody
> can understand besides Josh_B and me. The very strange corner case this
> doesn't work with is if people manually set VIDEO_CARDS="", then they
> will no longer get the behavior of pulling in everything. But the
> default case will still work great.

As of portage-2.1.1_pre4-r4, VIDEO_CARDS="" should now continue to work like before no matter how you've enabled the flags in the profile.  As part of the fix for bug 142125, portage automatically regenerates all of the USE_EXPAND variables to be consistent with the corresponding USE flags.

Zac
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