On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:28:35 +0200 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now as for the USE flag system. It has actually become so big > that it's difficult to use it effectively. I would actually > suggest that a two level system of USE flags could be employed. > Something like > wtk/gtk (Windowing Toolkit / gtk) > wtk/kde (Windowing Toolkit / kde) Sounds good on this example, but i'm not sure it would be that easy and meaningfull on the whole use.desc. I think you would end up with lot of "this flag should be in that category and not in this one" discussions (what already happen with packages). Also, i would be curious to see the output of an "emerge -pv" on some highly configurable packages (dev-lang/php comes to mind for instance), and whether it really improves readibility. > There could also be another category > experimental/minimal If the idea is just to give a "don't use this flag but if you know what you are doing" warning, then the best imho is simply to use.mask it in base profile. And people who know what they are doing can unmask it from their /etc/portage/profile/use.mask (syntax is "-flag"). Sure, it should not be named "minimal" in that case, since "minimal" is not something you want to mask, but rather "mini-kernel-src" or anything else that sounds like a specific flag. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
