On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:06:38 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:23:19 +0100 > "Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:55 -0800, Michael Marineau wrote: > > > > > For users who do like the functionality just properly document > > > the existance of USE_ORDER in the install guide. > > > > However, I'd -also- want the IUSE="+auto -bongodrums alpha beta > > +zeta" to be set, perhaps with a new USE_ORDER variable > > ":ebuild:" ? > > Imho, that's the problem with documenting USE_ORDER (although > it's a minor one): if a user set USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults" > in his make.conf and a later version of portage introduces some new > interesting value, he will miss this new feature without noticing. > > Since it seems that the common usage of user-defined USE_ORDER is > to remove values, but not actually to change their priorities > (probably because the default ones are the only ones which really > make sense), i would rather see a split in two distinct vars: > - FOO (i'm not good to invent names) would be portage internal > and define valid values and their respective priorities. > - BAR would be accessible to the users as an incremental var, and > would define what values should be taken into account. > > FOO default would be "env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults". > BAR default would be "auto conf default env pkg". > > This way, users could set BAR="-auto" in make.conf, which would > really mean "take all of the default USE_ORDER but the auto thing". > And the day "ebuild" or any other new feature is implemented, this > user will have it automatically (just like he would get any new > enabled-by-default FEATURES flag for instance). Personally I'd just kill auto-use support in the next "big" portage upgrade (and USE_ORDER with it as disabling auto-use is the only real application of it that I'm aware of). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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