Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:52:54
Message-Id: 20060805005131.GB18033@seldon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] per-package use.mask (bug 96368) by Alec Warner
1 On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:20:22PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
2 >
3 > >Since you're sliding this in, why not slide it in using use dep
4 > >syntax?
5 > >
6 > >No, not going to fight over this not being in package.mask, what I'm
7 > >saying is this _is_ masking of a use dep atom, just use use dep syntax
8 > >in the file instead.
9 > >
10 > >If y'all get use deps, it'll be a bit simpler for folks to support
11 > >then the existing crappy format used imo.
12 > >
13 > >Plus, parsing it's easy.
14 > >~harring
15 >
16 > Because as you've noted a thousand times, use deps are hard, and this is
17 > easy and inevasive.
18
19 *Parsing* use dep syntax is easy.
20
21 Actually making, and enforcing a use dep atom is tricky (this isn't
22 making a true use dep atom either I might add).
23 ~harring