On 2008/08/02, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > USE flags are something that can be enable or disabled
Here, what the flag would enable/disable is belonging of live packages to the @live-rebuild set. Compared to the RESTRICT solution, user gains an easy per-package control of this set (sure, the flag would be turned on in profiles, so that @live-rebuild is complete by default). > but the behavior of the src_unpack() method downloading live sources > is not something that's generally controlled by a USE flag afaik. Right, this "live-rebuild" USE flag would not control anything in the way the ebuild is executed, but only in the way the package is handled by Portage. It's not primary usage of USE flags, sure, but it's not completly unusual neither (for instance, take USE flags which are just there to trigger some convenience PDEPEND). Anyway, to rephrase / summarize my idea: - IUSE="live-rebuild" in the ebuild ==> triggers LIVEVCS.stable repoman check - IUSE="live-rebuild" in the ebuild, and package is installed, and USE flag "live-rebuild" is enabled for this package ==> makes it belong to the @live-rebuild set -- TGL.
