Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: scons.eclass

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:42:49 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:06:22 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > >	local varname=${2:-${flag}}
> >
> > should be stripping possible leading ! so that people can do
> > `use_scons !foo moo` just like they can today with `use_with $foo moo`
>
> Could you explain that better? Calling 'use_scons !foo moo' would cause
> varname to contain 'moo' anyway.

yeah, in that case it wouldnt matter

> If you meant calling just 'use_scons !foo' instead, I can do that but
> not sure if it'd be really useful. I guess packages don't tend to use
> some kind reverse logic for booleans, and would rather have
> the particular var prefixed by 'NO' or something like that then.

whether the upstream logic should be fixed is something to address there.  the 
extended `use_xxx` interfaces should support all the underlying features of 
`use` and work just as well as the existing ones.
-mike