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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>, patrick@g.o, gurligebis@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:08:31
Message-Id: 20150623070807.283b9d47@pomiot
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND by Zac Medico
1 Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 14:40:42
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On 06/22/2015 02:23 PM, Jason Zaman wrote:
5 > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
6 > >> Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
7 > >> Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
8 > >>
9 > >>> Hi all,
10 > >>>
11 > >>> I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to bug
12 > >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942
13 > >>> "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins"
14 > >>>
15 > >>> Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have
16 > >>> been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is
17 > >>> missing.
18 > >>>
19 > >>> If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on friday:
20 > >>
21 > >> USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single package
22 > >> are not appropriate for making global.
23 > >
24 > > Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
25 > > single package.
26 > >
27 > > APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
28 > > Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.
29 > >
30 > > -- Jason
31 > >
32 >
33 > Last time this came up, I suggested that we introduce a generic PLUGINS
34 > USE_EXPAND than many packages could utilize. That way, the plugins are
35 > still distinguished from the other flags in IUSE, but we don't have to
36 > introduce a new USE_EXPAND for every package.
37
38 Soo... plugins.desc would describe plugins to a lot of different
39 packages? Like:
40
41 foo - [in bar] Support for libfoo, [in baz] does something a bit
42 different
43
44 --
45 Best regards,
46 Michał Górny
47 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>