* Re: [gentoo-dev] internal use only use flags
@ 2007-07-06 18:16 99% ` Petteri Räty
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From: Petteri Räty @ 2007-07-06 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) kirjoitti:
> A grep '!!' /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc reveals the following:
>
> bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during
> original system bootstrapping [make stage2]
> build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for
> creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1]
> livecd - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during
> livecd building.
> selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be
> set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
> static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically
> linked instead of dynamically
>
> I think these internal use only use flags should have names that indicate
> that, for example: INTERNALUSE_bootstrap. This would help in recognizing them
> and at the same time free those names for normal use. The newest GHC is now
> forced to use "ghcbootstrap" and I plan on adding similar support to SBCL for
> the next release.
>
> It's probably a big pain to do this.
>
USE_EXPAND anyone... They can even be hidden from emerge -pv output I think.
Regards,
Petteri
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