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On Wed, 19 May 2004 14:34:12 -0400 Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote: |
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| I think we should address this with USE flag groupings. Someone should |
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| be able to just say they want full video support, for example, and |
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| that should enable all (freely available licensing-wise) codec flags. |
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| That way we can provide both simplicity and flexibility. |
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Strangely enough, I just suggested this in #gentoo-dev . Aside from the |
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issue of tidying up the existing USE flag setup, how do people feel |
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about something along the following lines (I'll GLEP it if the general |
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idea seems ok to people...): |
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ciaranm> jstubbs / genone: how hard would it be to add a use.groups to |
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portage which allowed aliases like @DESKTOP@ = @GNOME@ @KDE@ X, @GNOME@ |
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= gtk2 gtk gnome X and @MEDIA@ = jpeg png dvd quicktime mpeg blah blah? |
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genone> ciaranm: shouldn't be too hard, but there might be some little |
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details I don't see atm making it difficult |
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ciaranm> genone: issues i could think of are recursive (would have to |
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avoid circular...), and behaviour of -@GNOME@ (i'd just ban that |
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outright...) |
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ciaranm> genone: presumably @GNOME@ -gtk2 (for example) would work... |
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right now USE="blah-blah" -> -blah, right? |
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genone> USE="bla -bla" => USE="" |
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ciaranm> and -blah blah -> blah? |
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genone> yep |
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ciaranm> cool, thanks |
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genone> circularity isn't a big problem, just limit to n levels of |
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dereference, -@GROUP@ shouldn't be a problem either |
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genone> I'm more thinking about orders and so |
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ciaranm> how would -@GROUP@ work? just invert all the flags in @GROUP@ ? |
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genone> yes |
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* ciaranm thinks that could get rather confusing |
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genone> why that ? |
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steel300> @GNOME@=-kde -qt gnome gtks |
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ciaranm> well, -@KDE@ for example would disable more than just kde |
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ciaranm> steel300: except then you'd upset people who do @KDE@ @GNOME@ |
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ciaranm> steel300: i'd rather not have kde imply !gnome |
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genone> yeah, negated use flags would be forbidden in groups |
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steel300> it was just an example |
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ciaranm> steel300: i'm thinking @DESKTOP@=@KDE@ @GNOME@ @MEDIA@ |
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ciaranm> for example |
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steel300> will any include -*? |
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genone> no |
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ciaranm> hell no |
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steel300> is this a user defined thing or do we manage it? |
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ciaranm> i'm not so sure about disabling -blah in groups... @SERVER@=-X |
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-kde -gnome -qt etc for example |
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ciaranm> steel300: i'd just stick it in /usr/portage/profiles/ myself... |
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ciaranm> steel300: mmmmmmmaybe allow an/etc/portage/ entry |
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genone> USE="-* @SERVER@" |
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Here's hoping -claws doesn't munge the formatting for once... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh, Gentoo XMLcracy Member G03X276 |
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(Sparc, MIPS, Vim, si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes) |
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Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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