Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-28 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 09:19 Wed 17 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: >> I suggest that we unmask the appropriate ARCH flags in >> profiles/arch/*/use.mask, add ../base to profiles/arch/*/parent, and >> create profiles/arch/base/use.mask to mask all of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:19 Wed 17 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: > I suggest that we unmask the appropriate ARCH flags in > profiles/arch/*/use.mask, add ../base to profiles/arch/*/parent, and > create profiles/arch/base/use.mask to mask all of the existing ARCH > flags. This will serve to mask all but the appropriate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-17 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny > consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to > detect errors due to this. > > I think it's better to prevent this rather than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-17 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug >> reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such >> f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 15-09-2008 13:20:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > For future EAPIs, ARCH could be a regular USE_EXPANDed flag as you > > suggest, and package managers could filter any flag in USE which is > > not listed in IUSE. > > While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that > most peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:01:46 +0200 Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I don't necessarily disagree with you, my impression is that > > most people tend to think that certain profile-specific flags such > > as userland_* and kernel_* should be considered as implicit members > > of I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug >> reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such >> f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug > reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such > flags. He suggested using use.mask in profiles. Well since ARCH is also > s

[gentoo-dev] Preventing $ARCH flags in USE

2008-09-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to detect errors due to this. I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could