Sven Wegener wrote: > We just had a short discussion over in #gentoo-portage and the idea of > an use.force file for profiles came up. It allows us to force some USE > flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this > flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would not be > Gentoo, if we don't leave a backdoor. You can disable the flag by > putting -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force if you really need to. > Same goes for sub-profiles that need to disable this flag.
Yay! > I gues use.force has some other places where it is useful. Like the > default-darwin profiles which use ARCH="ppc" and USE="ppc-macos" but the > ppc-macos flag can be removed by using USE="-ppc-macos" in the > environment. Or selinux profiles, to force the selinux flag to be turned > on. It'll be also very useful for the amd64 profiles as in 2005.0 the use flag 'multilib' is disabled but multilib-support is forced. (There are no-multilib-profiles though.) > Comments? I consider use.force very useful, it'll finally make all the amd64 users stop asking themselves why the documenation says they will get multilib but the use flag is disabled, so please, go ahead implementing it. Regards, blubb -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
