On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:49:39 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 14 October 2006 04:00, Richard Brown wrote: | > man portage says that package.use is one depend atom per line. | | that addresses the "we can do it" but not the "we should do it" | | maintaining a large list of defaults in a profile is ugly ... instead | of having all the information self contained in the ebuild, you need | to keep multiple files in sync which can easily lead to bit rot | (which we've seen plenty of with package.mask and use.*desc files)
As opposed to having to keep multiple ebuilds in sync, which is even harder because they're not all in the same location. -- 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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