On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700 > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Utterly illegal, needs to die. > > > > Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I > > don't consider it illegal either. > > It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based > upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will > show the wrong information at --pretend time. There are also other issues, e.g. it breaks the generation of the @installed package set as the installed slots can't be found in the tree. As portage-2.2 makes increased use of slot atoms internally for vdb handling we got a few bugreports simply due to the cache constraint violation by USE=multislot. Marius
