On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to > drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice... > > I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to > let PM know how to handle this situation. > > For example, > category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped: > -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have > something like: > category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is > NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that > people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the > package > > ... and the opposite > > What do you think?
We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms list. -- Thanks, Zac
