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On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 11:46 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> Recently, a large number of bugs were filed against packages that have |
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> USE flag names which contain underscores. Apparently PMS prohibits |
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> this except when the USE flag is part of a USE_EXPAND variable. |
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> https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-200003.1.4 |
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> I'm not certain when this text was added to PMS, or how many of the |
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> affected USE flags pre-date this policy. |
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> Portage seems to have no issue dealing with underscores, so this |
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> doesn't seem to be solving any technical problem. |
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> I am pretty sure that renaming a bunch of USE flags will cause some |
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> amount of end-user confusion, for very little benefit. Is enforcing |
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> this part of PMS really worth it? |
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And having packages with pretended-USE_EXPAND-that-does-not-work-as- |
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USE_EXPAND is less confusing to the users? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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