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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:30:32
Message-Id: 200907080531.28302.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE by David Leverton
1 2009-07-05 13:36:24 David Leverton napisaƂ(a):
2 > On Sunday 05 July 2009 03:33:54 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 > > I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end
4 > > with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names
5 > > of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be automatically
6 > > added to IUSE variable.
7 >
8 > USE_EXPAND is set in the profiles, so it can't be used during metadata
9 > generation.
10
11 OK. I think that the proposed new behavior could concern all IUSE_* variables (maybe except IUSE_IMPLICIT).
12
13 > > It's a zero-cost feature implemented in the attached patch, so including it
14 > > in EAPI=3 (after temporary unlocking of list of features of EAPI=3)
15 > > wouldn't delay implementing support for EAPI=3 in Portage.
16 >
17 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090409-summary.txt
18
19 Council can vote on changing of its previous decisions.
20
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22 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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