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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
From:       Petteri Räty <betelgeuse () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-10-22 9:05:38
Message-ID: 435A00E2.3030606 () gentoo ! org
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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 05:56 am, Marius Mauch wrote:
> 
>>Petteri Räty wrote:
>>
>>>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags.
>>>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask
>>>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by
>>>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local
>>>use flag.
>>
>>The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g.
>>profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has
>>"USE=-bar", which one should be preferred?
> 
> 
> this is a no brainer
> 
> profile use.defaults
> profile package.use
> profile make.defaults
> user make.conf
> user package.use
> user env
> -mike
> 

Ah yes. Why make the profiles behave differently than the user order? In
user order we have make.conf before package.use and in profile
make.defaults after package.use.

Regards,
Petteri


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