Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-12 Thread Gordon Pettey
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Kent Fredric > wrote: > > On 12 February 2016 at 18:56, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> So my USE="-* ..." (without letting portage do autounmasking) would > >> continue to work just like it does no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 12 February 2016 at 18:56, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> So my USE="-* ..." (without letting portage do autounmasking) would >> continue to work just like it does now, correct? > > I would hope so. That would be my proposal. > A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12 February 2016 at 18:56, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > So my USE="-* ..." (without letting portage do autounmasking) would > continue to work just like it does now, correct? I would hope so. And obviously, this feature would be potentially tenous, and might be wise to only activate

[gentoo-dev] Re: "Lazy" use flags?

2016-02-11 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2016 07:55:52 -0500 as excerpted: > Now, auto-unmask could still propose sticking USE=+foo in your > package.use if you have USE=-foo in your make.conf, which is already the > behavior today. If you've made any explicit USE setting in your > configuration, porta