On 11/13/2011 11:08 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 11/13/2011 04:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 13 November 2011 05:48:40 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >>> On 11/12/11 11:24 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>>> Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log >>>> while building. >>> >>> We can have a different default in the developer profile. > >> the original reason for not doing this via profiles in the first >> place was old versions of portage would barf. i think that still >> applies to the developer profile :(. the first version of portage >> to support this option was released in like ~Mar 2011. -mike > Yeah but can't we just assume devs have recent versions of portage? I > can't imagine a dev using a 6-month old portage :-/
Another problem is that the user may have another EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS setting which overrides EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS from the profile, unless they use something like EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--foo ${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS}" in order to explicitly inherit options from the profile. And no, I don't think we should make EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS into an "incremental" variable. I think the current behavior is just fine. -- Thanks, Zac