Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: checking properties in ebuilds and eclasses

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2020, William Hubbs wrote:

> I would like to start a discussion on checking the PROPERTIES value in
> ebuilds. Specifically this could be used to check for live ebuilds
> instead of assuming that the version number of an ebuild indicates
> whether the ebuild is live.

> The up side of this would be that we aren't reserving a specific version
> number for live ebuilds.

> The down side that is being pointed out to me right now is that
> we would need a function like in_iuse, but called in_properties, to
> check the properties. We would need something like this because
> properties supports use conditionals, e.g.
> PROPERTIES="foo? ( bar )"

Right (and I hadn't thought of this). I would say that this pretty much
kills the idea.

> I suppose another downside (and I do this, so I would have to adapt) is
> that you couldn't really use one ebuild for a release and a live ebuild
> at the same time any longer.A