Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE and userland_, elibc_, kernel_, etc.

[Fabian Groffen]

On 04-11-2007 15:00:04 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 November 2007, Zac Medico wrote:
> >> For the USE=arch_${ARCH} part, we only have to add ARCH to
> >> USE_EXPAND in the base profile. For generating the implicit IUSE, we
> >> can introduce a new profile variable (rather than hardcode them).
> >> For example, we can define IUSE_EXPAND_IMPLICIT="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL
> >> USERLAND" and that will cause every package to inherit the
> >> corresponding USE_EXPAND flags in it's IUSE.
> >
> > i consider profile ones half the solution ... what about the other USE
> > expanded ones ?  video cards / alsa drivers / etc...
> > -mike
>
> Well, for bug 133327 I was thinking that we should add an IUSE
> syntax extension. For example, IUSE="@video_cards" would mean that
> all the video_cards_* flags are in IUSE. I guess we could use a
> similar approach for the implicit IUSE, and do something like
> IUSE_IMPLICIT="@arch @elibc @kernel @userland" in the profile.

Sounds good.  If I would be able to stick in "prefix" there somewhere,
then I could revert my horrible "add-it-to-arch.list" hack and do it in
a nice way.


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Fabian Groffen
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