-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I read the portage-dev discussion, and I'm still not seeing how this is > superior to make.defaults.
The difference with use.force is that it prevents flags, that are deemed extremely important, from being accidentally disabled by the user. > If you want to be enabling local USE flags by > default, this is no less of a hack than that is -- what's truly needed > is some way to set per-package defaults. That's distinctly separate feature that is also needed. > The only valid use I can see is things like the architecture, libc, and > so forth. And it seems like there ought to be better solutions to this > than adding another hack on top of USE. The use.force feature is complementary to use.mask. It's exactly the same concept, but inverted. > BTW your mail was really difficult to reply to, since it didn't have any > line wrapping. Sorry about that. I don't like forced line wrapping but I understand that many email clients don't behave very well without it. Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2AWq/ejvha5XGaMRAkxCAKDeBiDdrPFoUxMpSbin0OAunF0ZDwCgmnB5 n84YnXuED/W01dTO4vl5nyc= =cGVg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
