On 03/17/2011 11:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 19:40:31 Zac Medico wrote: >> On 03/17/2011 03:18 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Thursday, March 17, 2011 17:59:44 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: >>>> I'd suggest doing something like: >>>> >>>> use hardened && elog ... >>>> >>>> There's an argument that it's better to make decisions according to >>>> make.conf settings rather than the host system configuration, not >>>> least to cater for people doing cross-builds. Assuming cross builds >>>> work at all; I've not tried that for a long time. >>> >>> in general, yes. but this would have the unpleasant side effect of >>> having IUSE=hardened show up for all packages that inherit the eclass. >>> >>> also, this code is run at the pkg_* stage, so it's not the normal src >>> host feature detection. and we're talking about minor output behavior. >> >> I don't know the specifics of what PMS says about this, if you put >> hardened in use.force then portage will allow you to use that flag >> without it being in IUSE. > > that would require listing every package that inherits pax-utils in use.force > too right ? doesnt sound scalable.
No, because use.force applies to all packages. I guess you were thinking of package.use.force. > my proposal, while certainly not perfect, attempts to take a middle ground > without incurring too much cruft. i think i achieved that while appeasing > most people in practice. > -mike Shrug, I just thought I'd mention it. -- Thanks, Zac
