Peter Gordon wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
The difference with use.force is that it prevents flags, that are deemed
extremely important, from being accidentally disabled by the user.
If they were so "extremely important" then they would not be optional,
and hence not even be USE flags at all, no? Or am I missing something?
Yes. Some flags are extremely important to certain users (read: profiles) but
not to others. In some cases the USE flag are so extremely important because
they are more or less what makes the whole profile. Think of 'selinux' or
'multilib'.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2316
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Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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