On 03/17/2011 03:18 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 17:59:44 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: >> I'd suggest doing something like: >> >> use hardened && elog ... >> >> There's an argument that it's better to make decisions according to >> make.conf settings rather than the host system configuration, not >> least to cater for people doing cross-builds. Assuming cross builds >> work at all; I've not tried that for a long time. > > in general, yes. but this would have the unpleasant side effect of having > IUSE=hardened show up for all packages that inherit the eclass. > > also, this code is run at the pkg_* stage, so it's not the normal src host > feature detection. and we're talking about minor output behavior. > -mike
I don't know the specifics of what PMS says about this, if you put hardened in use.force then portage will allow you to use that flag without it being in IUSE. -- Thanks, Zac
