On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 01:06 +0300, Philipp Riegger wrote:
> But: In livecd-stage2 there is the genkernel callback function, which  
> is in my case a emerge call. I don't know how it is in general, but  
> probably the same. And for this emerge call it might be quite handy  
> to have package.mask and package.keywords. So, why was the desicion  
> made to use boot/kernel/whatever/use instead of portage_confdir,  
> which is much more flexible?

Release Engineering *never* uses portage_confdir for our official builds
and never will.  Everything must reside in the spec file itself.  The
only reason that portage_confdir exists is for you guys to allow you to
hack up your own builds in a manner that would be totally unacceptable,
by Release Engineering standards.

The best/most tested method for changing USE is boot/kernel/$x/use in
your spec file.

> Again, what does the [boot/kernel:x] in the documentation stand for?

Huh?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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