On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:46:57 +0200 > Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 12/05/14 17:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > A flag being present or not in FEATURES does not mean anything, and >> > if you're assuming that it does then you have a bug. >> Please try to stay on topic, and don't obfuscate your posts >> needlessly. > > This is on-topic, and it tells you exactly what you need to know to > understand why your objection is irrelevant. But if you would like it > made simpler, but less precise: if you are looking at FEATURES for > anything that is not purely Portage internals, you are doing something > wrong. >
The idea would be to check for the necessary kernel features from portage backend code, not from ebuild code.