On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:14:11 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:13:34PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Brian Harring wrote: > > > Semantics of USE=-gtk not working on a package that has gtk > > > forced doesn't sound all that nice btw; > > > > Which is why the flag shouldn't be forced unless it's almost > > certain that the flag shouldn't be disabled. The gtk flag might > > not ever fall into that category, but something like cxx might > > (nocxx inverted). > > Flag shouldn't be forced, period imo. What about masked flags, should those exist? Because use.force and use.mask are pretty much the same: accounting for configurations (=profiles) where support for a flag is not available/not optional (IIRC one example was USE=hardened on hardened profiles, solar may correct me here). So if you want to deny one, you should deny both. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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