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
