Hi all! We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force some USE flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would not be Gentoo, if we don't leave a backdoor. You can disable the flag by putting -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force if you really need to. Same goes for sub-profiles that need to disable this flag.
This use.force support might be used as an replacement for some USE_EXPANDs like ELIBC and KERNEL because they are prone to break if the USE_EXPANDed variable is also set in the environment. Like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ KERNEL="foo" emerge --info | grep ^USE= USE="x86 ... userland_GNU kernel_foo elibc_glibc" I gues use.force has some other places where it is useful. Like the default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos" but the ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be turned on. Comments? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Wegener Gentoo Linux Developer http://www.gentoo.org/
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