On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:14:18 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:03:05 +0200 > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > No, you're not guaranteed to get the ebuild's value of IUSE, or > > > any particular eclass's value of IUSE, or the merged value of > > > IUSE. In particular for this case, it's possible to get false > > > negatives. > > > > Then fix the spec. > > The spec accurately reflects the mess that is global and metadata > variables. Portage has historically done all kinds of different things > here (sometimes varying depending upon whether you're a binary, > whether things are being loaded from VDB, whether env saving has > happened previously etc), and the code is rather sensitive to > apparently minor changes in bash versions. Thus we don't provide > guarantees. The historical mess is not relevant anymore. Is there a single real case when IUSE does not contain *at least* the ebuild-set IUSE? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
