package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
 

Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the
package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?

To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still
have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use
which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are
adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?

Ulrich

package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
 

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the

package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?



To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still

have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use

which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are

adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?



Ulrich




Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at this point in time they really should.

package.use in profiles and IUSE defaults
 

On 10:27 Mon 02 Mar , Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Is it safe to remove an entry from package.use (in profiles) if the
> > package has an IUSE default for the respective flag?
> >
> > To be more concrete, Emacs ebuilds have IUSE="+xpm" now, but we still
> > have an entry "app-editors/emacs xpm" in profiles/base/package.use
> > which I would like to remove. As I understand it, the two methods are
> > adjacent in USE ordering, so nothing should change for users?
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> >
> Correct. Assuming the user has an EAPI=1 capable package manager, which at
> this point in time they really should.

If they don't, then they won't be able to install emacs anyway since all
its ebuilds have EAPI 1.

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Donnie

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