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On Sunday 07 December 2003 06:29, James Harlow wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, I just thought I'd mention that I'm going to be doing the |
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> collation of the portage-ng suggestions. At the moment I'm trawling |
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> through old threads and picking up all the ideas which I'm roughly |
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> dividing into 5 categories: language, interface, architecture, |
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> functionality, and data-model. As soon as I've got something to show, |
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> I'll post here. |
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New one for the functionality/data-model. |
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USE flags need to be able to be grouped into 'super-USE' flags. For example: |
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"multimedia", "workstation", "server", etc. |
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where "multimedia" = "video-codecs", "audio-codecs", "media-recording", etc. |
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where "video-codecs" = "avi", "divx", "dvd", etc. |
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Reasoning: It will allow the Linux newbie to average user to customize there |
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system to there needs without having to research cryptic flags such as "mad" |
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and "xv". |
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USE flags should only be filed into one of the decided (sub-)categories. For |
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example, "dvd" should not be implied by both "video-codecs" and |
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"media-recording". |
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Reasoning: If a USE flag can only belong to one category, it will also enforce |
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cleaner distinction of USE flag meanings when applied to ebuilds. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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