On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:36:40 +0200 Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 04-04-2009 12:24:32 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > Sure it's not a user land like GNU or BSD but I can't see why we > > > couldn't change what USERLAND means. > > > > But why change the meaning if it's confusing an unnecessary? > > Perhaps it's more appropriate to set IUSE_IMPLICIT="prefix". > > This sounds like a good thing to make it explicit prefix is an > implicit USE-flag. > > However, I would still prefer to see prefix being masked in base, and > then unmasked and forced in the prefix profiles. Does that make any > sense?
The two aren't mutually contradictory. Quite the contrary. For EAPI 3, we're aiming to make it illegal to do anything with a flag unless it's either explicitly listed in IUSE or handled via a number of special magic profile variables, so you'd either have to list it everywhere or use one of the profile variables. Once you do that, how you mask / force it is up to you, unless you need some kind of special package manager handling for that flag. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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