Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: George Shapovalov <georges@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE variables - How to add?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:59:31
Message-Id: 200204102252.47967.georges@its.caltech.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE variables - How to add? by monkey
1 So this issue has come up at last (or rather again).
2
3 AFAICT there is no special registration mechanism for USE variables.
4 Just use it in your ebuild and add it to make.conf (this is more appropriate
5 place for it BTW).
6 However I think there should be some coordination in place for the USE
7 variables. If everybody will be creating them we will be sunk pretty soon
8 (I've seen this asked few times already).
9 Daniel, Bevin, what do you guys think?
10 (I checked on the channel, nobody seemed to know of the policy of any kind).
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12 George
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15 On Wednesday 10 April 2002 22:22, monkey wrote:
16 > Hello all,
17 > I'd like to add a "USE" variable. Specifically, I would like to
18 > add the variable mta-chroot. So, my question is, can I just add the
19 > variable to /etc/make.profile/make.defaults and all will work (this has
20 > not been my experience thus far), or is there a different method for this?
21 > Short version: How can I add/use the variable mta-chroot in a
22 > postfix.ebuild? I can't be the only person who wants the option run
23 > postfix chroot'ed, am I?
24 >
25 > geoffrey