Jason Stubbs posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:44:44 +0900:
> 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. It's not treated as some sort of metacharacter or otherwise currently input filtered, then, I take it. > 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. ... and existing make.confs and package.uses, of course... Good point. It'd certainly be lots of work, and I can envision the discussions over whether various flags belong in this or that category, and where to put the ones that don't seem to fit a category, but it might be worth it in terms of clarity and ease of use (or maybe not, as the PHP example points out). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
