On 04-04-2009 20:41:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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.
Sounds to me it would be ok then to add it now in use.mask, and then EAPI 3 is done, define it in whatever special variable it needs to be added to according to the specs then. IUSE_IMPLICIT -- assuming it can be defined in the profiles -- seems like a good way to prepare for that, since it makes explicit it is implicit, IMO. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
