On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:03 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:47 pm, Petteri Räty wrote: > >>Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. > >>Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask > >>file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by > >>default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local > >>use flag. > > > > i still dont see how this addresses the nocxx / USE=-* > > noFOO is used because "FOO" is on by default, and noFOO turns it off. > AutoUSE is the same way, package bar is included in the buildplan and to > have sane defaults, certain flags are turned on. > <snip>
that was a great explanation however irrelevant it may have been i guess we will have to make 'nocxx' a special case as we strip all other 'no*' USE flags from portage -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
