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From: Jason Zaman <jason@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>, patrick@g.o, gurligebis@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:23:32
Message-Id: 20150622212313.GA23162@meriadoc.Home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
3 > Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >
5 > > Hi all,
6 > >
7 > > I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to bug
8 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942
9 > > "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins"
10 > >
11 > > Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have
12 > > been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is
13 > > missing.
14 > >
15 > > If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on friday:
16 >
17 > USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single package
18 > are not appropriate for making global.
19
20 Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
21 single package.
22
23 APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
24 Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.
25
26 -- Jason

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>