On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:10:44AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > | Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is > | eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility > | in breaking the package down into conditionals. > | > | I really don't see -* being all that useful long term frankly, since > | the major usage of it I've seen is either within cascaded profiles, or > | nuking autouse; people do block profile use flags also, but killing > | autouse falls in with killing profiles :) > > I don't think that having -* not actually do -* is a good idea. And most > people adding local flags don't really consider the -* case so creating > no* flags isn't a major concern. > > ~From my POV, -* is expected to not work well, but it should do what it > suggests: subtract everything. Meh. -* 's meaning right now is to nuke all USE flags that portage tries to 'help' in adding. Having it nuke all default use seems wrong, since people *currently* use -* to block autouse crap, and -* isn't what they signed up for initially.
Different flag imo seems wise, rather then grandfathering people into it; nuking what the profile offers should be available, but I don't think nuking default IUSE should be nuked as an added bonus of trying to disable auto-use/profile cruft. Thoughts? ~harring
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