Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:42 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:34 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | In order to do this, selected profile specific flags should be > > | masked in th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-25 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:34 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | In order to do this, selected profile specific flags should be > | masked in the base profile and unmasked/forced in the specific > | profiles which

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 15:22 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > We can make this change to the profiles immediately because use.mask > support has been available for a long time, and use.force is simply > ignored by older versions of portage. Thoughts? If this is done, will anyone who makes such changes t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:34 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | In order to do this, selected profile specific flags should be | masked in the base profile and unmasked/forced in the specific | profiles which they apply to. The unmasking is necessary because | use.mask currently overrid

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] mask and force various profile specific USE flags

2007-02-17 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, If we mask and force various profile specific USE flags appropriately, it will give repoman the information it needs to stop producing bogus warnings about unsatisfied conditional dependencies that are actually irrelevant. An additional