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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:28:17
Message-Id: pan.2005.09.23.09.22.04.854691@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs posted <200509231644.47078.jstubbs@g.o>, excerpted
2 below, on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:44 +0900:
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4 > There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag
5 > "categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in
6 > a USE flag, hence the support is there already.
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8 It's not treated as some sort of metacharacter or otherwise currently
9 input filtered, then, I take it.
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11 > The work would come in adjusting every ebuild to use the different
12 > name as well as killing backward compatibility with already installed
13 > packages and binary packages.
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15 ... and existing make.confs and package.uses, of course... Good point.
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17 It'd certainly be lots of work, and I can envision the discussions over
18 whether various flags belong in this or that category, and where to put
19 the ones that don't seem to fit a category, but it might be worth it in
20 terms of clarity and ease of use (or maybe not, as the PHP example points
21 out).
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25 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
26 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
27 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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