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. -- Jason Stubbs -- [email protected] mailing list
