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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:48:32
Message-Id: 20100331194626.GG11663@hrair
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative by Alex Alexander
1 On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:49:26PM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote:
2 > VALID_USE does look a bit strange.
3 >
4 > how about
5 > IUSE_RULES
6 > or
7 > IUSE_RESTRICTIOMS
8 > or
9 > RUSE
10 > ?
11 It's not really IUSE; the constraints it specifies applies to USE
12 only.
13
14 USE_STATES, VALID_USES, VALID_USE_STATES, ALLOWED_USE, etc.
15
16 Actual name I don't hugely care about, I'm more interested in ensuring
17 we don't rule out doing use cycle breaking via a bad design decision.
18
19 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>