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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:19:47 -0700 Lares Moreau |
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<lares.moreau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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| Is it feasible and or useful to have a 'meta-flag' that that enables |
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| all the 'necessary' USE flags for a given group of packages? So |
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| something like USE='meta-<flagname>'. |
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USE flags are for things that're optional, not things that are |
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necessary, so your request doesn't make sense. |
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If you mean "to avoid that icky built_with_use error", we're getting |
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foo[bar] deps soon anyway, so it's better to avoid polluting the tree |
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with even more nastiness. |
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Your other option... would be to revive GLEP 29. Be warned, however, |
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that in the form in which I left it, GLEP 29 doesn't solve many of the |
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problems that developers would expect a "USE flag grouping" GLEP to |
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solve. In particular, it doesn't provide anything that would help with |
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USE flag editing tools. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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