Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) Updates

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:39:05 +0100 Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org> wrote:
| On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:57 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:23:08 +0100 Peter Ruskin
| > <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
| > | On Monday 18 October 2004 14:41, Jason Stubbs wrote:
| > | > USE="@KDE -@GNOME"
| > | > becomes
| > | > USE="kde qt arts X -gnome -gtk -esd -X"
| > | > becomes
| > | > USE="kde qt arts"
| > | 
| > | I still don't see the need for all this grouping stuff, but if
| > | we're going to get it, will USE="@KDE -@GNOME" gtk work - I mean,
| > | wil it result in USE="kde qt arts gtk"?
| > 
| > Yes. It'll also result in USE="-X"...
| > 
| 
| Would USE="-@GNOME @KDE" result in USE="-X"?

No. It'd result in USE="X".

| From rom present USE behaviour it seems to be parsed left-to-right, so
| would not.  Just a point for my own clarification...

Yup. Think of the @STUFF as macro expansion, plus a bit of clever
trickery to handle -@BLAH.

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