public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 01:09:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b4bf9a0-ee8f-a5a0-d29b-0a7c7c02bdcd@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191010155705.2bf1479b@katipo2.lan>


[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 851 bytes --]

On 10/9/19 7:57 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:45:34 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'd prefer to disable --autounmask by default and include warnings about
>> harmful behavior in the documentation.
> 
> I think autounmasks behaviour with regards to USE flags is useful,
> (heh), its just everything else it does tends to violate stability
> assumptions.
> 
> For instance, I can see why automatically escalating "arch" to "~arch"
> may be useful in some cases, but its a very dangerous default,
> *especially* for perl.

We can add --autounmask-use=<y|n> option that's enabled by default when
--autounmask is unspecified.

When --autounmask=y is specified, we'll have full autounmask behavior.

When --autounmask=n is specified, we'll have --autounmask-use=n behavior.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 981 bytes --]

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09 23:53 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default Kent Fredric
2019-10-10  2:45 ` Zac Medico
2019-10-10  2:57   ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-10  3:35     ` Michael Everitt
2019-10-10  3:39       ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-10  8:09     ` Zac Medico [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7b4bf9a0-ee8f-a5a0-d29b-0a7c7c02bdcd@gentoo.org \
    --to=zmedico@gentoo.org \
    --cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
    --cc=kentnl@gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox