Bug 110504 – Installing emacs doesn't assert the emacs USE flag.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description AJ Armstrong 2005-10-25 20:29:09 UTC]

Shouldn't emacs assertion be in use.defaults?

[Comment 1 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2006-03-06 09:22:09 UTC]

I'm not sure what the function of use.defaults is.

[Comment 2 AJ Armstrong 2006-03-06 17:06:06 UTC]

:-)  According to `man portage`:

 use.defaults
                     Here  we  DO  NOT  define  the default USE flags, but the
                     so-called auto-USE flags.  This  rather  unknown  portage
                     feature  activates  a  USE  flag if a specific package is
                     installed and the flag was  not  explicitly  deactivated.
                     This file contains the associations between USE flags and
                     packages that trigger the auto-USE feature.

                     In other words, if we never put "sdl" or "-sdl" into  our
                     USE,  but we have media-libs/libsdl emerged, then portage
                     automagically sticks "sdl" into our USE for us.

                     Format:
                     - comments begin with #
                     - one USE flag per line with a list of DEPEND atom bases

                     Example:
                     # media-libs/libsdl will activate "sdl"
                     sdl        media-libs/libsdl
                     # activate tcltk only if we have both
                     # dev-lang/tcl and dev-lang/tk
                     tcltk      dev-lang/tcl   dev-lang/tk

It strikes me that having the emacs USE flag automatically asserted by installing emacs would make sense.

[Comment 3 AJ Armstrong 2006-03-06 17:07:16 UTC]

:-)  According to `man portage`:

 use.defaults
                     Here  we  DO  NOT  define  the default USE flags, but the
                     so-called auto-USE flags.  This  rather  unknown  portage
                     feature  activates  a  USE  flag if a specific package is
                     installed and the flag was  not  explicitly  deactivated.
                     This file contains the associations between USE flags and
                     packages that trigger the auto-USE feature.

                     In other words, if we never put "sdl" or "-sdl" into  our
                     USE,  but we have media-libs/libsdl emerged, then portage
                     automagically sticks "sdl" into our USE for us.

                     Format:
                     - comments begin with #
                     - one USE flag per line with a list of DEPEND atom bases

                     Example:
                     # media-libs/libsdl will activate "sdl"
                     sdl        media-libs/libsdl
                     # activate tcltk only if we have both
                     # dev-lang/tcl and dev-lang/tk
                     tcltk      dev-lang/tcl   dev-lang/tk

It strikes me that having the emacs USE flag automatically asserted by installing emacs would make sense.

[Comment 4 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2006-11-01 07:40:21 UTC]

Thank you very much, I have commited the change to CVS