Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com>]

Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:03, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> 
>>>On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>>>
>>>>But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is
>>>>activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken
>>>>and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume
>>>>nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't
>>>>installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated.
>>>
>>>true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other
>>>installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use
>>>flag to be triggered.
>>>but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't
>>>enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled.
>>>--emptytree should assume nothing is installed
> 
> 
> This one, I'm undecided on. Strictly, --emptytree should assume nothing is 
> installed. In practice though, many users use it to reinstall everything. If 
> --emptytree does actually assume nothing is installed, users could find 
> themselves with blocked packages overwriting each other and wonderful things 
> like that.
> 
> Two options I see are:
> a) Keep current behaviour
> b) Make --emptytree a --pretend only option and create a new --reinstall.

I think it is more of a consistency bug than a function bug. I don't believe it 
causes any problems in practice, and I only stumbled across is because of the 
project I'm working on. I don't think it actually affects anyone.

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