On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Utterly illegal, needs to die. > > Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I > don't consider it illegal either.
It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will show the wrong information at --pretend time. See bug #24439, for example. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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