Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

[Kito <kito@gentoo.org>]

On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Dan Meltzer wrote:

> Seems like use.force might be a bad name..... when I first read the
> email, and saw use.force, the first thing that came to mind was
> "gentoo forcing something?" and even after reading the email, I
> wouldn't expect to be able to override something that was "forced."
> I'm not sure what a better name would be, but I think there may be
> one...
>
> also, wouldn't the override be in use.unforce? >_<

what about just a use.env?

>
> On 6/13/05, Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Sven Wegener wrote:
>>
>>> We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the  
>>> idea of
>>> an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force  
>>> some USE
>>> flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable  
>>> this
>>> flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would  
>>> not be
>>> Gentoo, if we don't leave a backdoor. You can disable the flag by
>>> putting -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force if you really  
>>> need to.
>>> Same goes for sub-profiles that need to disable this flag.
>>>
>>
>> Yay!
>>
>>
>>> I gues use.force has some other places where it is useful. Like the
>>> default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos"  
>>> but the
>>> ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the
>>> environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be  
>>> turned
>>> on.
>>>
>>
>> It'll be also very useful for the amd64 profiles as in 2005.0 the use
>> flag 'multilib' is disabled but multilib-support is forced. (There  
>> are
>> no-multilib-profiles though.)
>>
>>
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>
>> I consider use.force very useful, it'll finally make all the amd64  
>> users
>> stop asking themselves why the documenation says they will get  
>> multilib
>> but the use flag is disabled, so please, go ahead implementing it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> blubb
>>
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>> Simon Stelling
>> Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
>> blubb@gentoo.org
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