Marius Mauch wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > >> Every once in a while I see people wanting to use nosomething use flags. >> Why don't we have a package.use like we already have a package.mask >> file? This would make it possible for developers to turn on use flags by >> default in a way that would not cruft the base profiles for every local >> use flag. > > > The main problem I'd have with this is the stacking order, e.g. > profiles/package.use has "app-misc/foo bar" and make.conf has > "USE=-bar", which one should be preferred? > Current rules say that /etc/portage/package.use overrides make.conf, and > user config overrides profiles, the proposal would create a new > unintuitive situation between those two. > Depending on the answer on this it also has some technical implications > with the way package.use support is implemented currently. In short it's > not a trivial thing to do. > > Marius
Gentoo being about choice the new package.use should come before anything user set. I do not see any problem with this if it works in the same way as package.mask already works. Please, enlighten me. Regards, Petteri Räty
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