On Thursday, March 17, 2011 19:40:31 Zac Medico wrote: > 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. > > 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.
that would require listing every package that inherits pax-utils in use.force too right ? doesnt sound scalable. my proposal, while certainly not perfect, attempts to take a middle ground without incurring too much cruft. i think i achieved that while appeasing most people in practice. -mike
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