Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 03/16/2015 09:31 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-03-15 at 16:37 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 14:02 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>>>
>>> You can set default USE flags in the profile, and then the users can override those settings locally 
>>> (both 
>>> positively and negatively). You should not be using use.mask at all here. The profile can set USE="-flag" 
>>> in make.defaults, or in packages.use, and the user can override that without having to mess with use.mask.
>>
>> That is how I started, I added -thin etc. to profile's package.use and it didn't work so I moved over
>> to package.mask.
>> Now when I try with -thin again in profile's package.use it actually works!
>> I have no idea what got wrong the first time.
>> Anyhow, thank you for your patience. I will continue moving over all Transmode stuff to our new profile the 
>> next few days :)
> 
> hmm, spoke too fast. Negative USE flags in profiles package.use works on other
> computers but mine :-(
> 
> I have in profiles package.use:
>  app-emulation/qemu usb usbredir vde qemu_user_targets_x86_64 xattr virtfs static-user -alsa -pulseaudio -bluetooth -opengl
> but on my computer the -USE flags(-alsa -pulseaudio -bluetooth -opengl) have no effect.
> I have been looking high and low what could case this but no luck, any pointers ? 

Maybe you have overridden the default USE_ORDER setting? You can use
this command to check it:

   portageq envvar USE_ORDER

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Thanks,
Zac