Re: [gentoo-dev] Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

[Olivier Crete]

On Mon, 2006-30-10 at 08:26 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Alternate subject: On the sudden appearance of USE=X for tons of stuff
>
> I really want to use font.eclass in x-modular.eclass to get rid of a lot
> of code duplication and more possible bugs. Problem is, it brings in
> IUSE=X for every single X package. I cannot figure out how to prevent
> this. Setting IUSE="" after the inherit in x-modular.eclass is not enough.
>
> Anyone got any ideas? The only one I have is to add significant missing
> functionality to font.eclass and switch every font package over that
> instead of x-modular.eclass.

Isnt it possible to define something like I_AM_X=1 in x-modular.eclass
and in fonts.eclass have a if [[ -z "${I_AM_X}" ]]; then IUSE="X";
DEPEND="current depends"; else DEPEND="as if X use flag was forced"; fi
and replace the use X with a use X || [[ -z "${I_AM_X}" ]]

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Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer


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