On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:27:43 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd rather not make USE_EXPAND incremental if we can't subtract flags. > At present, we accomplish that by simply resetting the whole thing in > subprofiles. But the proposal seems to make impossible any subprofile > of a valid profile that wishes to negate a setting of the parent. I wrote: > > It would mean that all USE_EXPANDed variables get stacked in the > > same way that USE does. The base profile defines a set of defaults, > > which gets flags added to or removed from it in other profiles. The proposal means that all variables listed in USE_EXPAND get handled exactly as USE does where profile inheritance is concerned. Subprofiles can add to and remove from the value in the parent profile just as they can for USE. -- [email protected] mailing list
