On Friday 23 September 2005 15:36, Duncan wrote: > OTOH, it's obviously yet /another/ thing for portage devs to work on, and > portage is /supposed/ to be in feature request freeze ATM... I like the > idea, but whether the benefits of putting it on the current feature list > outweigh the costs of putting it off, is something I'm not going to even > pretend I want to evaluate. =8^| If you portage devs believe it's easy > to "make it so", perhaps further discussion is warranted. If not, I'm > not in favor of putting off the next portage yet /again/ to make it > happen, tho it'd certainly be nice to have, so I'd say it's not even > worth further discussion ATM. JMHO...
There's absolutely no work required on portage to support USE flag "categories". There's nothing preventing a "/" character from appearing in a USE flag, hence the support is there already. The work would come in adjusting every ebuild to use the different name as well as killing backward compatibility with already installed packages and binary packages. -- Jason Stubbs
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