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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:06:34
Message-Id: 42B8475C.4080500@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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5 > Jason Stubbs wrote:
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7 >>Any reason why INPUT_DEVICES is needed in USE_EXPAND rather than just as local
8 >>USE flags? It's kind of the odd one out among the above.
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11 > The reasoning for that is that hardware support doesn't make sense as
12 > USE flags, so it should be something else. In this case, that was
13 > INPUT_DEVICES. We haven't been able to take much advantage of it yet,
14 > but it may work out better after X's upstream modularization.
15 So those make no sense but 3dnow,sse,sse2,makemyprocessorgrow are
16 fine as USE flags? Those also enable support for special hardware.
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19 > Thanks,
20 > Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>