On 10-09-2012 10:28:26 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:25:05 +0200
> Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 10-09-2012 09:32:23 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > So really we should just not support prefix at all in any EAPI
> > > before 5, and not have the whole "but define those p
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:25:05 +0200
Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 10-09-2012 09:32:23 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > So really we should just not support prefix at all in any EAPI
> > before 5, and not have the whole "but define those prefix variables
> > anyway" hack in eclasses. But apparently pe
On 10-09-2012 09:32:23 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> So really we should just not support prefix at all in any EAPI before
> 5, and not have the whole "but define those prefix variables anyway"
> hack in eclasses. But apparently people are preferring to go to great
> lengths not to have to use ne
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:18:56 +0200
Fabian Groffen wrote:
> Normally, if you use a USE-flag, you add them to IUSE of the ebuild.
> However, some USE-flags have been considered too general to put them
> in there in the past.
That's not exactly why. Historically (as in, way before EAPI days) IUSE
wa
On 07-09-2012 16:38:15 -0700, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
> On 9/7/2012 10:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > With the introduction of IMPLICIT_IUSE (scheduled for EAPI 5), a phrase
> > has been added to PMS, that finally makes a statement on what's supposed
> > to be in IUSE, and what not[2]. To me, t
On 9/7/2012 10:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
With the introduction of IMPLICIT_IUSE (scheduled for EAPI 5), a phrase
has been added to PMS, that finally makes a statement on what's supposed
to be in IUSE, and what not[2]. To me, this patch means that things like
userland_BSD, elibc_glibc, etc. d
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:32:12 +0200
Fabian Groffen wrote:
> mgorny opened up a bug[1], which requests for all eclasses that use
> the 'prefix' USE-flag to be "fixed" to add 'prefix' to IUSE.
Please do not suggest that I am the one requesting this to be "fixed".
I just have opened the bug because C
All,
mgorny opened up a bug[1], which requests for all eclasses that use the
'prefix' USE-flag to be "fixed" to add 'prefix' to IUSE.
While the 'prefix' USE-flag has since its introduction belonged to that
group of USE-flags that are not supposed to be set by the user
him/herself, it is not cover
