On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:40 +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > 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'm in favor of this. Would you mind calling it package.autouse, package.use.auto or are you set on .force? > 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 > -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
