On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 18:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | As I also suggested in a previous post, if you can think of a more > | intuitive way for the user to be able to do this, without the use of a > | USE flag which is persistent and doesn't involved an external file, > | please. Let me know. If its viable, I will migrate the functionality > | to that. > > Heck, go with a local USE flag if you really think that one measly > little symlink is too much for our users to cope with. But don't clutter > up the globals list with something which is only applicable to a small > group of packages in the same category and which has a tiny effect.
It currently effects some 24 packages. ----- find /usr/portage/sys-kernel/ -type d -iname "*sources" | wc -l 24 ----- Which makes it either 24 lines in use.desc.local, or 1 line in use.desc. Which was my justification for it being global. As you are aware however, there are talks of integrating the older config-kernel functionality into eselect. In the mean time, if we can muster enough of a reason to use such a tool, we will look into making a case for it. This will then eliminate the need of a use flag. But as it stands, there is no viable alternative to change install-time behaviour. -- Role: Gentoo Linux Kernel Lead Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 9C745515 Key fingerprint: A0AF F3C8 D699 A05A EC5C 24F7 95AA 241D 9C74 5515 Web: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9C745515
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