Re: [gentoo-dev] Need a new USE variable

[Jon Portnoy]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:21:18PM +0000, fdnews_gentoo@×××××××××.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing ebuilds scripts for the QtParted partition tool. The problem is
> that tool need many external tools:
> - xfsprogs if it supports the XFS file system
> - jfsutils for JFS
> - libntfs for NTFS
>
> But the problem is these use variables does not existing (according to
> "http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml").
> I would need to use them. Can I just suppose these variables already exists,
> or is there a need of declaration in the portage internals ?
>
> It would be a good idea to answer this question in the
> GentooDeveloperDocumentation.
>

Local USE vars can be used if they're in use.local.desc. When submitting 
this ebuild, make sure to note in the bug any local USE variables. Check 
out /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc for an example of some local 
USE variables (and the corresponding ebuilds for an example of how 
they're used in the ebuild).

Documentation suggests should be posted to http://bugs.gentoo.org - 
there are two documentation categories, developer docs and user docs, if 
I remember correctly.


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