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Hi! |
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Jan Kundrát said this topic belongs to the mailinglist. |
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You can find the related bug-report here: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221967 |
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Content: |
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>From the name of the USE-flag, you could expect different things: |
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1. It stands for 'dedicated server', which would mean, that this USE-flag does |
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enable support for a dedicated server. |
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(That means also that you would expect, that you have in both cases the whole |
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GUI; and with enabled USE-flag you get additionally the dedicated server.) |
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2. It stands for 'dedicated only', which means, all the GUI part is skipped. |
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(That means you would expect, that you have in both cases the whole GUI and the |
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dedicated server; and with enabled USE-flag you get only the dedicated server |
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but not the GUI.) |
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>From the description, it seems, that there is even a third case where you have |
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either only the GUI or only the dedicated server (something you would not |
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except at all). |
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After all my experiences with USE-flag, I would expect, that a USE-flag which |
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does not contain the name "no" or "only" does only add a specific feauture but |
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does not remove anything. Therefore I expected the first case when I saw this |
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USE-flag for the first time and a lot of ebuilds also use it like this. Though |
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the second case seems still also valid for me. The third case doesn't make |
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sense at all for me. (Is there really any ebuild with this behaviour? If so, |
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this should be fixed.) |
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Anyway, the behaviour of the USE-flag should be consequent. The whole sense of |
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USE-flags is to define the behaviour of ebuilds. And normally you define the |
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USE-flags globally for your system. If there are USE-flags which behave |
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different on each ebuild, they don't make sense. |
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For example, on my desktop system, I want to have the first behaviour for all |
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ebuilds (I want to have both the game itself and the dedicated server). I have |
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enabled the dedicated USE-flag globaly and it works good for most games I use. |
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Though, I always need to make some exceptions for some games which is annoying |
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and should not be. |
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On my server, I want to have the possibility to get only the dedicated server |
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but not the GUI. For some own ebuilds, I introduced the USE-flag |
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'dedicated-only' for this. |
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To fix the problem, there should be two different USE-flags. One should do the |
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first behaviour (something like 'dedicated' or 'dedicated-server' or 'server') |
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and another for the second (something like 'dedicated' or 'nogui' or |
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'dedicated-only' or 'server-only'). The important thing is to not have a |
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USE-flag with different behaviours. |
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So, what do you think? |
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Greetings, |
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Albert |
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