On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use > > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be > > used... > > Because of the way USE flags stack in Portage (the USE_ORDER variable), > IUSE defaults are not a solution for dropping no* flags: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43137/focus=43175 > As Zac pointed out in his reply to this post, dropping nocxx and > friends is more a job for use.force / package.use.force.
the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than the -* case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags also, use.force isnt exactly a nice solution ... more like brute force, i'm not sure any no* flag would be appropriate -mike
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