142853 – use.force and package.use.force for profiles

Bug 142853 - use.force and package.use.force for profiles

Summary: use.force and package.use.force for profiles

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

URL:	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux....
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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	136244
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Reported:	2006-08-04 22:05 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2006-08-11 16:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-08-04 22:05:42 UTC

Quote from Sven Wegener:

It allows us to force some USE flags to be turned on for a profile. It's not possible to disable this flag by make.conf, the environment or package.use. But we would not be Gentoo, if we don't leave a backdoor. You can disable the flag by putting -flag in /etc/portage/profile/use.force if you really need to. Same goes for sub-profiles that need to disable this flag.

Full discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/28727

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-08-11 16:12:26 UTC

This is in svn r4214 and has been released in 2.1.1_pre5.