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El dom, 13-02-2011 a las 20:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: |
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> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:00:31 +0100 |
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> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > If rest of gnome team agrees, I think we could go with, but I still |
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> > fail to see what is the "technical" problem on allowing CAMERAS="*" |
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> > to be used :-| |
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> 'cameras_*' isn't a valid use flag name, so the package mangler can't |
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> just pass the * through to the ebuild, which means it has to expand the |
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> value itself. But there's no complete list of every CAMERA value |
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> anywhere, so it can't. |
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> There were plans to fix this in EAPI 4 by requiring that IUSE be |
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> accurate. That would have allowed the package mangler to use IUSE to |
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> get a complete list of known CAMERAS and be able to expand * that way. |
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> Unfortunately, that feature got dropped, and so in EAPI 4 you're still |
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> allowed to make use of USE_EXPAND variables without making sure IUSE is |
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> complete. |
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Do you know if there are any plans on implementing it on a future EAPI? |
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I think being able to simply enable all of them with "*" would be |
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interesting (at least in the future) |
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Thanks for the information |
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