On 04-04-2009 14:22:09 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 03/04/2009 16:47, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : > > However, we have toyed with other ideas. One of which is to introduce > > IUSE=prefix in prefix.eclass similar to the USE=multilib approach. I > > don't really like this idea because it exposes the use flag and we > > don't want it exposed to the users. > > Just of curiosity, with IUSE=prefix, how many packages would get the USE > flag? > > If we're only talking about a few packages, I don't mind it showing up > in portage. If anything, it'll help spread the word about Prefix :)
It's more that you cannot sensibly set USE=prefix yourself, neither should you be suggested or encouraged to do so, hence it should never show up in Portage's pretend output. It's like Portage suggesting you that you can set ARCH or KERNEL to some other value yourself, and that if you emerge -e or something you can upgrade Linux to FreeBSD or x86 to ppc. While this would be great, it doesn't work. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
