Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2005 05:56 am, 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? > > > this is a no brainer > > profile use.defaults > profile package.use > profile make.defaults > user make.conf > user package.use > user env > -mike >
Ah yes. Why make the profiles behave differently than the user order? In user order we have make.conf before package.use and in profile make.defaults after package.use. Regards, Petteri
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