On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:49:40 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 15:18, Zac Medico wrote: > > Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > Any chance of per-package USE defaults support? That's much more > > > useful to me. > > > > Attached to bug 61732 there's a patch that implements this via a new > > IUSE_DEFAULTS ebuild variable. If people like that particular > > implementation, then I'll update the patch so that it applies to > > portage-2.1.1_pre. Some might suggest that an EAPI bump is proper > > for the addition of this type of functionality, but perhaps we can > > slide it in without that extra annoyance. > > i'm really really partial to overloading IUSE here rather than > introducing a new variable ... You mean by doing something like: IUSE="alpha +beta gamma" meaning beta is default-on? Could do the same thing in per-package use.mask (although "mask" becomes a misnomer at that point). -- Kevin F. Quinn
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