Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:38, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:23, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > So what needs to be done to fix it? Well, what is the purpose of
> > > USE_EXPAND? Put simply, it is to allow the user to select one or more
> > > features of a package from a list of choices. How is this different to
> > > USE flags? The choices all pertain to one aspect of the package(s).
> >
> > The way ELIBC, KERNEL, USERLAND are used, is instead something different.
> > They don't allow users to select what they want, they allow profiles to
> > declare what they are created for.
>
> Which leads me to the one thing I didn't say but feel strongest about.. What
> is the real point of USE_EXPAND? What can/does it do that USE flags do not?

As far as I can tell, it was created to keep people from adding a huge
number of USE flags to IUSE on a package.  I can't see any other reason
for it.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
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Gentoo Linux