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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Jason Zaman <jason@×××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>, patrick@g.o, gurligebis@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:09:05
Message-Id: 20150623070636.3842cce5@pomiot
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND by Jason Zaman
1 Dnia 2015-06-23, o godz. 01:23:13
2 Jason Zaman <jason@×××××××××.com> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
6 > > Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
7 > >
8 > > > Hi all,
9 > > >
10 > > > I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to bug
11 > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942
12 > > > "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins"
13 > > >
14 > > > Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have
15 > > > been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is
16 > > > missing.
17 > > >
18 > > > If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on friday:
19 > >
20 > > USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single package
21 > > are not appropriate for making global.
22 >
23 > Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
24 > single package.
25
26 Not sure when. But the policies about USE flags were in the devmanual
27 long before I came here.
28
29 > APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
30 > Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.
31
32 Past screwups don't justify future screwups.
33
34 --
35 Best regards,
36 Michał Górny
37 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>