Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing eclass code relying on ${IUSE} greps?

[Samuli Suominen]

On 09/14/2011 02:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 14/09/2011 alle 12.38 +0200, Michał Górny ha scritto:
>>
>> Honestly, I'm ready to remove all relevant code in
>> autotools-utils.eclass and fix all ebuilds in gx86 & Sunrise using it.
>> But if that's not the path we're going to take, I'd like to avoid
>> changing API then.
>
> If that means that you won't just add --enable-debug/--disable-debug on
> ebuilds just because they declare IUSE=debug then please do so.
>
> It's one of the worst ideas I have ever seen implemented :|
>

I second that.  I've been "yelling" about it for years...

Same for the stupid assumption gnome2.eclass does with IUSE="doc" for
gtk-doc