[gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE flags suddenly disappearing

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Mike Frysinger wrote: as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may notice some USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will continue to carry support for this, but some

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 11:15, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: Or is it because I always had: USE=-* ${MY_USE} in /etc/make.conf? yes -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support Could you add a USE_ORDER without auto to /etc/make.globals for that release, please, or alternatively provide some

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Alec Joseph Warner
Can we get this on the website/announce? I agree that auto-use is the suck and that it needs to die a long excrutiating death, but I think a lot of users will be like wtf when 2.1 hits stable and --newuse turns up a massive crapload of packages. Whether this announced now, or when

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread solar
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 06:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support I see this as a good and bad thing. Good in one hand that less autojunk would be enabled like python/perl bindings not

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:13:02 -0500 solar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The autouse itself is not a bad feature or idea if it were used properly. | Problem is that it's not been used properly. No, it's bad. It's another thing that makes correct dependency resolution impossible. -- Ciaran McCreesh :

Re: [gentoo-dev] pending dooooooom of use.defaults

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 13 January 2006 15:13, solar wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 06:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: as one of the new sane features of the next portage-2.1_pre release, we're looking to cut out use.defaults support I see this as a good and bad thing. Good in one hand that less autojunk