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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND NGINX_MODULES_STREAM
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:08:47
Message-Id: CAEdQ38HfBw_LfVWQVgPiTdP5Q-ouvzmo6BACJCmmz809u5M5pw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND NGINX_MODULES_STREAM by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > Dnia 5 lutego 2016 07:38:44 CET, Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
3 >>On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 04:35:44PM -0600, Gordon Pettey wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Kent Fredric
5 >><[1]kentfredric@×××××.com>
6 >>> wrote:
7 >>[ ... ]
8 >>>> Its really sad we can't just have what Paludis does, package.use
9 >>>> side
10 >>>> support for USE_EXPAND.
11 >>>> www-servers/nginx normal_use_flags NGINX_MODULES: http_access
12 >>>> http_auth_basic http_autoindex
13 >>>> Or similar.
14 >>>
15 >>> But we can do exactly that, as of at least portage-2.2.24, possibly
16 >>> earlier.
17 >>
18 >>Whoa that I was unaware of. This is amazing and makes USE_EXPAND much
19 >>less important to me :D
20 >
21 > Exactly. Furthermore, I wanted to deprecated setting flags via make.conf and switch to pure package.use alike paludis but met the usual resistance.
22
23 I don't remember such a thread, but I'm not surprised.
24
25 FWIW, I think the idea has merit.