Gentoo Archives: gentoo-qa

From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-qa@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-qa] USE_EXPAND flags and IUSE
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:21:20
Message-Id: 49ADC4DC.1070508@gentoo.org
1 Do we have a policy for QA regarding to whether USE_EXPAND flags should
2 also show up in IUSE?
3
4 Take, for example[1], a scenario like this:
5
6 IUSE=""
7 RDEPEND="elibc_foo? ( foolibc )"
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9 The metadata cache will generate the IUSE flag as empty as well,
10 breaking stuff like my little GPNL tool that needs to read it to see
11 what use flags are implemented.
12
13 Obviously, portage is fine without it in there, but I wanted to know
14 what our policy is. Plus, I'd like to fix them so that the IUSE is
15 correct as well.
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17 Steve
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19 1. also see something like virtual/init/init-0.ebuild