On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:47:14 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > For example, people might think they can start masking > > cat/pkg[flag]. Is this a replacement for package.use.mask or does > > it mean something else? I have a sneaking suspicion that if there's > > not a policy saying "no use deps in profiles" then people will > > start trying to use them for all kinds of horrible hacks that would > > be better being fixed properly. > > Do you consider masking USE flags in repositories a 'horrible hack'? > Because that's the use I see for newer-EAPI profile.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Which is pretty much the problem: it's really not clear what use dependencies in profile files mean. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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