-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Removing the QA check while the QA problem still exists is, in my mind, just | plain ludicrous. Removing the QA check once the QA problem is fixed doesn't | make much sense to me either. However, adjusting the check where necessary to | match the fix is reasonable. | | So what needs to be done to fix it? Well, what is the purpose of USE_EXPAND? | Put simply, it is to allow the user to select one or more features of a | package from a list of choices. How is this different to USE flags? The | choices all pertain to one aspect of the package(s).
What I have done in my ebuilds using USE_EXPAND is add extra IUSE-like variables, for example: IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="radeon sis mga" IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics wacom" for `use video_cards_sis` etc.. This would allow for possible QA checks. Potentially, portage could look through and display things at --verbose like: [ebuild N ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050807 +dga -nls VIDEO_CARDS="+sis +mga -radeon" 538 kB [2] USE_EXPAND allows grouping a similar set of USE flags together to indicate their relatedness, and it is particularly useful when there are both USE_EXPAND and non-USE_EXPAND flags on the same ebuild. It is also useful when a number of packages make use of the same group of USE_EXPAND variables. The main problem with USE_EXPAND right now is that people just don't realize it exists, so they don't take advantage of it. We need a way to tell them, such as the --verbose output I suggested and some more documentation. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDOWbZXVaO67S1rtsRAulnAKCkevKbDcd1ib2S9W3m8Ila797KGgCeLWNS ZY+Fat5UX9sjVA0r+yB159U= =Kysv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
