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Jason Stubbs posted <200509231644.47078.jstubbs@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:44 +0900: |
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> There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag |
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> "categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in |
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> a USE flag, hence the support is there already. |
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It's not treated as some sort of metacharacter or otherwise currently |
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input filtered, then, I take it. |
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> The work would come in adjusting every ebuild to use the different |
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> name as well as killing backward compatibility with already installed |
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> packages and binary packages. |
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... and existing make.confs and package.uses, of course... Good point. |
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It'd certainly be lots of work, and I can envision the discussions over |
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whether various flags belong in this or that category, and where to put |
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the ones that don't seem to fit a category, but it might be worth it in |
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terms of clarity and ease of use (or maybe not, as the PHP example points |
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out). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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