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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