Alec Warner posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:47:40 -0500:
> <snip> >>>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.) > > I would prefer to keep USE_ORDER for now, since I was going to replace > the "auto" dict with the "default-iuse" which means you can choose not > to stack these new flags. Although it may be a hack, we have no better > way of managing use flag stacks at the moment. I was wondering... but nobody challenged it at the time the plan was mentioned (the previous posts I referred to), and that's one thing I haven't messed with (yet?), so /I/ was keeping quiet. Maybe I misunderstood the entire thing, but I don't think so because I remember being rather unconfortable with it just being outright dismissed like that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
