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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:05:57
Message-Id: 464CC2F6.6000904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ? by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch kirjoitti:
2 > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:45:48 +0200
3 > dju` <dju@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> eerror "Your ${package} package has been built without"
6 >> eerror "${func} support, please enable the '${use_flag}' USE flag and"
7 >> eerror "re-emerge ${package}."
8 >> elog "You can enable this USE flag either globally in /etc/make.conf,"
9 >> elog "or just for specific packages in /etc/portage/package.use."
10 >> die "${package} missing ${func} support"
11 >
12 > A little detail about elog: You should not use different elog functions
13 > (eerror, elog, ewarn, ...) within the same message as they may appear
14 > out of order in the final log (e.g. the elog lines might appear before
15 > the eerror lines). This is because messages of the same loglevel and in
16 > the same phase are grouped together. It's an implementation detail that
17 > might be changed in future versions, but for now you'll have to live
18 > with it.
19 >
20 > Also I don't see much use in explaining how to enable a use flag inside
21 > ebuilds, at most there should be a pointer to the real documentation
22 > IMO.
23 >
24 > Marius
25
26 Any updates on this?
27
28 betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage/eclass $ grep built_with_use_die -r .
29 betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage/eclass $
30
31 I for one would use it if it existed.
32
33 Regards,
34 Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] add built_with_use_die() to eutils.eclass ? Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>