From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BFA1381F3 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B7C4E0969; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED25DE0964 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-195-43.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.195.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEA6D33E8D5 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51F175BD.90601@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:00:13 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds References: <1374778444.4925.7.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1374778444.4925.7.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99418fb9-a2c9-4ca5-bfc0-34b43e4f0d2a X-Archives-Hash: 0bb14fd7b8585660db6c6335ad6aafa2 On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to > drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice... > > I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to > let PM know how to handle this situation. > > For example, > category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped: > -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have > something like: > category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is > NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that > people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the > package > > ... and the opposite > > What do you think? We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms list. -- Thanks, Zac