On Thursday 01 February 2007, Alec Warner wrote: > But at that point the manager has little or no control over the package, > hell you can move the savedconfigs out of /etc/portage/ cause they have > nothing to do with it at all. > > You can't do use-deps with this, because you can't effectively enumerate > what a savedconfig build will actually build with (assumining > savedconfig is enabled for that package) since the manager's choices > will just get over-ridden. The PM would be required to essentially scan > the savedconfig and parse them into an internal package config state. > And from a PM point of view that blows ;)
how does any of this ever really matter in the bigger scheme ? the point is that you can never effectively enumerate the options to the pm, so just stop getting in the user's way and let them fully customize the package -mike
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