On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:25:42 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
| > The profiles change over time. Currently, when the profiles change,
| > the only thing that has to be checked for conflicting USE behaviour
| > is subprofiles. With IUSE defaults, the person making the change
| > will also have to do a sanity check over the entire tree.
| 
| Uh, what kind of conflicting behaviour and what sanity checks are you
| talking about here? Did you _really_ miss the whole point of this
| feature?

Before changing default values for USE flags, arch and release people
have to make sure that that change won't do something nasty like
introduce circular or built_with_use deps into the default system
resolution.

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Ciaran McCreesh
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