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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:36:32
Message-Id: 200907051236.24611.levertond@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 On Sunday 05 July 2009 03:33:54 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2 > I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end
3 > with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names
4 > of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be automatically
5 > added to IUSE variable.
6
7 USE_EXPAND is set in the profiles, so it can't be used during metadata
8 generation.
9
10 > It's a zero-cost feature implemented in the attached patch, so including it
11 > in EAPI=3 (after temporary unlocking of list of features of EAPI=3)
12 > wouldn't delay implementing support for EAPI=3 in Portage.
13
14 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090409-summary.txt

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>