El lun, 14-02-2011 a las 13:41 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:33:52 +0100 > Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You should be able to -* them out... -* is fine (assuming Portage > > > handles it) since we know what the null set is; it's just * that's > > > the problem. > > > > Yeah, portage handles it, but thought -* also had the same problem, > > thanks for clarifying, anyway, latest approach on only enable ptp2 by > > default looks fine for me > > No, -* is fine, so long as Portage doesn't pass it through literally. > > The problem, specifically, is that things like this are totally legal > and are done by some packages: > > IUSE="linguas_en linguas_fr" > > if use linguas_de ; then > > if has linguas_de $LINGUAS ; then > > if has linguas_de $USE ; then > > So if you were to set LINGUAS="*", there would have to be some magic > way for the package mangler to know that linguas_de exists, even if > there's no mention of it anywhere in any user config files or in IUSE > (and no, the desc files aren't a complete list either). > > The reason for this, historically, was that IUSE was used purely for > display purposes by Portage, whilst USE was worked out from everything > in config files, regardless of whether or not the ebuild claimed to use > it. That meant there was absolutely nothing stopping you from making > IUSE incomplete... >
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Regards
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