On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:19 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:12:47 +0000 | Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Following a discussion in #gentoo-portage earlier this evening, it | > was suggested that I send out an RFC email for this. So, does anyone | > object to requiring that any variable listed in USE_EXPAND be | > treated as incremental, at least as far as profile inheritance is | > concerned? | | The main problem I see is that if it's becoming a real incremental | (across all config layers) it would change behavior for users as | they'd need to prefix their use-expanded vars with -* to retain their | current config. But I guess that's why you added that final clause | about profile scope.
You know, making users do that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing... I know that Paludis users like having the option of inheriting defaults from the profile for expanded vars... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis is faster : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=61
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