From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:45:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CEBB5B.8020507@gentoo.org> (raw)
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Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny
consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to
detect errors due to this.
I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug
reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such
flags. He suggested using use.mask in profiles. Well since ARCH is also
set by a profile, why not. Although a really persistent and stupid user
could use.unmask, it's better than no protection. And then we can think
how to replace the current ARCH->USE flag system with e.g. USE_EXPAND.
What do you think?
Vlastimil
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236801
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-15 19:45 Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2008-09-15 20:01 ` [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE Santiago M. Mola
2008-09-15 20:20 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-16 6:01 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-09-16 6:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-09-17 15:07 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-17 16:19 ` Zac Medico
2008-09-28 16:19 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-09-28 16:32 ` Zac Medico
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