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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:49:13PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Current (possibly unwritten) policy: |
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> - eclasses declare USE-flags they honor in their own IUSE |
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> - ebuilds declare USE-flags they honor in their own IUSE |
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> - ebuilds do not declare USE-flags honored by eclasses they inherit |
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The policy itself is almost fine, it's the checking we need to improve. |
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The only policy problem case that is where an eclass has a flag |
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declared, but the ebuild doesn't use that part of the eclass at all, on |
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purpose. Either the ebuild/eclass should be changed, or we should have |
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a way to take flags out of IUSE further down the line. |
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> So right now the policy is broken, but the apparent alternative is |
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> unmanageable. Ideas? |
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Before changing more, it would be good to have some proper repoman |
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checks for this stuff. |
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It should be easily doable, as there are only a few proper ways to use |
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USE flags in your ebuild. This would also help catch ebuilds/eclasses |
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not declaring IUSE properly, or having old stuff in IUSE that isn't |
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actually used anymore. |
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The only official ways to use USE flags are (at least to my knowledge): |
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use FLAG |
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usev FLAG |
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useq FLAG |
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use_enable FLAG |
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use_with FLAG |
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I don't think I'm missing any here am I? |
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The only other change is that repoman would need to work on eclasses. |
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