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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:22:27
Message-Id: 200509231019.16895.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources by Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
1 On Friday 23 September 2005 05:28, Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
2 > Now as for the USE flag system. It has actually become so big that it's
3 > difficult to use it effectively. I would actually suggest that a two
4 > level system of USE flags could be employed. Something like
5 > wtk/gtk (Windowing Toolkit / gtk)
6 > wtk/kde (Windowing Toolkit / kde)
7
8 This is just arbitrary grouping as far as USE flags themselves go. Rather
9 than changing the name of the flags, why not just split the flags that are
10 in use.desc into categories separated by comments?
11
12 # some category
13 use ...
14 use ...
15 ...
16
17 # Windowing Toolkits
18 gtk ...
19 kde ...
20
21 # some other category
22 ...
23
24 --
25 Jason Stubbs

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