On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:39:38PM -0700, Duncan wrote: > Harald van Dijk posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:49:42 +0100: > > > 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 other way of checking > > whether use.defaults is read? This would greatly help me out with ufed, > > which currently has no way to check this, and instead has to hardcode > > "env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults" as the default USE_ORDER just like portage > > does. > > According to previous posts, USE_ORDER will be going away with > use.defaults, because that was really the only reason it was there in the > first place as there's no other sane ordering possible, if it is removed.
There are other sane orderings possible, one being pkg:env:conf:defaults so that USE=xxx emerge -NpDuv world will show exactly what adding xxx to make.conf will do. I don't recall where I saw this, unfortunately, but I do know that some people actually use it for this. (Okay, maybe that's really the only other sane ordering.)
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