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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