On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:43:20 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > > Incidentally, if anyone is still thinking that built_with_use is > > fine... It doesn't handle IUSE defaults, which means package > > managers have to store a hacked version of IUSE in VDB for EAPI 1. > > This isn't documented anywhere and is highly unobvious. > > I don't understand this. IUSE defaults affect whether a use flag is > on or off when installing the ebuild. Why would it need to be stored > in the VDB? There should only be a need of the value of $USE. Please > elaborate.
VDB stores exact copies of ebuild metadata variables, except for IUSE. IUSE is the only one that gets modified by the package manager. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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