Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/strongswan USE_EXPAND

[Zac Medico]

On 06/22/2015 10:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 14:40:42
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> On 06/22/2015 02:23 PM, Jason Zaman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>> Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30
>>>> Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o> napisał(a):
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to bug
>>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942
>>>>> "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins"
>>>>>
>>>>> Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have
>>>>> been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is
>>>>> missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on friday:
>>>>
>>>> USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single package
>>>> are not appropriate for making global.
>>>
>>> Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a
>>> single package.
>>>
>>> APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc.
>>> Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package.
>>>
>>> -- Jason
>>>
>>
>> Last time this came up, I suggested that we introduce a generic PLUGINS
>> USE_EXPAND than many packages could utilize. That way, the plugins are
>> still distinguished from the other flags in IUSE, but we don't have to
>> introduce a new USE_EXPAND for every package.
>
> Soo... plugins.desc would describe plugins to a lot of different
> packages? Like:
>
> foo - [in bar] Support for libfoo, [in baz] does something a bit
> different
>

We have support for local use descriptions in each package's
metadata.xml, and profiles/use.local.desc is generated from those
automatically.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac