-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Apparently, setting USE=x86 in make.conf on amd64 arch can have funny > consequences such as [1]. And I can imagine even more subtle and hard to > detect errors due to this. > > I think it's better to prevent this rather than waste time with bug > reports like that. I asked Zac on IRC whether portage could filter such > flags. He suggested using use.mask in profiles. Well since ARCH is also > set by a profile, why not. Although a really persistent and stupid user > could use.unmask, it's better than no protection. And then we can think > how to replace the current ARCH->USE flag system with e.g. USE_EXPAND. > What do you think? > > Vlastimil > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236801 >
I suggest that we unmask the appropriate ARCH flags in profiles/arch/*/use.mask, add ../base to profiles/arch/*/parent, and create profiles/arch/base/use.mask to mask all of the existing ARCH flags. This will serve to mask all but the appropriate ARCH flags for all of the 2008.0 profiles. Does this seem reasonable? - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjRLiMACgkQ/ejvha5XGaOUnACfb+wsK5BbVdNgmuG/KShxDPXy hUUAn2a4hwO+4euOmExozx+7MegJZLK7 =9/4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
