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From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:26:52
Message-Id: C4E16307-827A-47EB-93B9-1726D3840AFE@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND by Jason Zaman
1 There have been a couple of discussions about it previously, IIRC. The intent to dissuade new ones, not eliminate old ones AFAICR.
2
3 On June 22, 2015 5:23:13 PM EDT, Jason Zaman <jason@×××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >> Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
6 >> Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
7 >>
8 >> > Hi all,
9 >> >
10 >> > I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to
11 >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
20 >friday:
21 >>
22 >> USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single
23 >package
24 >> are not appropriate for making global.
25 >
26 >Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
27 >single package.
28 >
29 >APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
30 >Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.
31 >
32 >-- Jason
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35 NP-Hardass