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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Introduce has_iuse() for IUSE checks.
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:49:09
Message-Id: 20110913125030.5031aee6@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Introduce has_iuse() for IUSE checks. by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:32:40 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:21:31 +0200
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 > > Such checks are used at least in autotools-utils & kde* eclasses,
7 > > and are done wrong there. Thus, I've created a little reusable
8 > > snippet suitable for eutils.
9 >
10 > Are you sure this is defined behaviour? IUSE is a fancy merged
11 > variable for eclasses, and I don't think we guarantee that the value
12 > visible to the ebuild at any particular point is the generated value
13 > used by the package mangler.
14
15 True. I guess there's no way to tell whether a particular IUSE is
16 defined in the ebuild then? Hrm, I guess we'll need to break API compat
17 (and a number of ebuilds then) to get rid of this.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny

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