On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:44, Alec Warner wrote:
> Brian Harring wrote:
> > IUSE- eapi bump it, I pushed for the var for exactly crap like this ;)
> > 
> > The only (imo) reason to add the USE_ORDER chunks is because users use 
> > -* to castrate auto-use; auto-use is dead in 2.1, so the main reason 
> > for using -* is gone.
> > 
> > So... really worth adding another chunk of metadata for this?
> 
> Well that problem would be, no one wants to modify everything in
> app-portage/ :).  If my portage EAPI is 1, but my tools don't support
> processing +- in IUSE, how does EAPI help me here?  The support check is
> only for portage_const, so the tool remains <sensored>.  Unless I'm
> missing something.

Nah, Brian's right. Tools need to follow. Backwards compatibility isn't so
important there. The important thing is that portage keeps on living.

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