Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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 >
And we should keep the current shitty behavior to accomediate cxx why? What is so hard about USE="-* cxx"? Are there no other flags that do bad things when they aren't turned on via use.defaults and profiles? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
