On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:24:52 -0500 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:40:59 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | At the profile level, I've added support for package.use | > | which behaves like /etc/portage/package.use that everyone is | > | familiar with. The intention is that the IUSE defaults will be | > | used for default flags that should be enabled regardless of | > | profile. | > | > Isn't that why we have base profiles? It's kinda icky moving that | > metadata partially into ebuilds IMO... | | Are you saying you like a bunch of php-only USE flags (I'm not | picking on php...it was just the first that came to mind) being in | the default USE in the profile?
Yes. It's better than them being hidden away in individual ebuilds, especially when they stop being PHP specific. | Do you also like the nofoo flags? No. You know that. | AFAIK, previous discussions said | that the per-ebuild default USE would go in the USE stacking order | above make.conf and below package.use, so that USE="-*" wouldn't | remove the default USE flags for the particular ebuild but the user | could still disable it via package.use if they *really* wanted to. Which is nasty. Anyone using -* should really get -*. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13
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