On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:41:08 -0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:30:04AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2014, 00:26:03 schrieb Ryan Hill: > > > > > > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags. > > > > > > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ > > > > > > > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine. > > > > > > This flag already exists and has always worked this way. > > > > "already exists and has always worked this way" is not really a good > > argument. The rest of the tree sticks to guidelines, so why not here? > > Agreed again. Saying that something has always worked a certain way in > the past is not justification for keeping it working that way, > especially when there are preferred ways of doing the same thing that > are different. Sure, I'm just pointing out that nothing is changing here. It sounded like people were objecting to the addition of a new no* flag. I agree we should change them once we can but that shouldn't block this patch. > > > We don't have USE defaults yet. > > > > Now if you had said "we can't use USE defaults yet since current ebuilds > > are still at EAPI=0"... that would have been slightly more informative. :) > > > > (Yes I've seen that there is work going on, and I think that's good. Being > > careful when modernizing makes sense here of course.) > > Right, I thought someone had updated toolchain.eclass to use a modern > eapi, but I hadn't seen any more on that in some time. What's the > latest? I did, but I can't start using new features until I bring all the ebuilds up to a minimum EAPI. I'm going to start that this weekend. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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