Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:52:20
Message-Id: 20110915165139.GC16239@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:35:21AM +0200, Micha?? G??rny wrote:
2 > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:53:50 +0100
3 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:47:17 -0400
6 > > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > I second the allowing dots in USE flag names. Definitely would be
8 > > > helpful for declaring version related USE flags.
9 > >
10 > > You know you won't be able to mention such flags in the base profile,
11 > > right? At least not for a year or more, until the base profile's eapi
12 > > can be set to something other than 0.
13 >
14 > Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots
15 > in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well, quse
16 > and euse as well.
17
18 pmerge -pv sys-apps/portage[it.validate.atom.use.flags.just.not.make.conf]
19
20 ~harring