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From: Nathaniel Grady <nate@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:03:03
Message-Id: 20011125160159.A20581@nutopia.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps by Tom von Schwerdtner
1 gaim is one example - i *hate* having it built with gnome support because it ends up as a pannel applet then. Otherwise i use gnomesupport for everything else :)
2
3 --Nate Grady
4
5 On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
6 > Hey all,
7 >
8 > Some people have suggested that they would like to be able to set some
9 > USE variables for specific apps.....examples escape me, but I know it has
10 > been brought up.
11 >
12 > Anyways, I was thinking something along these lines would work:
13 >
14 > ----
15 > # Global settings
16 > USE = "this that other etc"
17 >
18 > # App specific
19 > USE-mozilla = "!this !that foo"
20 > ----
21 >
22 > Basicaly, the syntax would be "USE-<appname>". This portion should be
23 > simple enough to impliment, however the variables pose more of a problem
24 > since you dont want to have to repeat all of the normal USE settings for a
25 > specific app and most of the time you just want to specify a USE setting not
26 > to use (hence the !'s). Special vars might be good here too, like
27 > "defaults" to inherit all the global USE settings...or "no-defaults" to
28 > ignore them all...
29 >
30 > .....thats the general idea....comments?
31 >
32 > -Tom
33 >
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37 >
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