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This seems quite reasonable, and I welcome QA's efforts at maintaining |
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uniformity and cleanliness. |
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+1 |
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On Aug 20, 2015 7:43 PM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Right now, a number of game packages are using USE=dedicated to control |
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> 'installing a dedicated game server only'. Aside to that, some game |
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> packages also have USE=server that controls building the server itself. |
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> Non-game package use USE=client and USE=server. |
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> In order to improve uniformity of USE flags across different packages, |
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> the QA team would like to deprecate USE=dedicated and use USE=client |
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> and USE=server as appropriate. |
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> The problems I see with USE=dedicated are: |
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> - it is game-specific. The term 'dedicated server' is not used amongst |
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> other server/client model packages. |
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> - It uses negative logic. Instead of enabling something, it disables |
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> client. Pretty much 'dedicated' == 'noclient'. Negative logic is |
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> confusing. |
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> - In packages having USE=server as well, it can lead to really absurd |
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> combinations, like what does 'USE=dedicated -server' mean? Will it |
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> build no executables at all? If we add REQUIRED_USE='dedicated? |
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> ( server )', this gets quite unfriendly. |
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> As an alternative, we would use USE=client and USE=server along with |
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> proper IUSE defaults to control client & server builds appropriately. |
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> Both flags use positive logic, and REQUIRED_USE='|| ( client server )' |
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> is rather clear. |
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> Does anyone see any real problems with that? |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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