On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:23:58PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've written a patch [1] that adds support for package.use.mask in the > profile. It should behave exactly as use.mask currently does except that it > allows USE flags to be masked for specific packages rather than for all > packages. > > In previous discussion it's been noted that package.mask + use deps would be > an alternative way to express this type of masking. However, > package.use.mask + use deps would have the added ability to mask certain USE > flags based on other flags that have been selected for a package. Either > way, the per-package use.mask functionality is certainly needed. Shall we go > ahead with the package.use.mask implementation or not? > > Zac > > [1] > http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/branches/2.1/patches/package.use.mask.patch
Since you're sliding this in, why not slide it in using use dep syntax? No, not going to fight over this not being in package.mask, what I'm saying is this _is_ masking of a use dep atom, just use use dep syntax in the file instead. If y'all get use deps, it'll be a bit simpler for folks to support then the existing crappy format used imo. Plus, parsing it's easy. ~harring
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