-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Stubbs wrote: | On Wednesday 28 September 2005 13:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | IUSE="baz bop" | iuse_expand VIDEO_CARDS foo bar
This has the ring of hack to me, if it's something to be used in ebuilds. |>In addition, it saves IUSE from having super-long flags: |> |>IUSE="video_cards_foo video_cards_bar video_cards_baz ... " -- picture |>that repeated 10 times. It's just plain ugly and overly long. | | | It doesn't save anything because internally it needs to be done that way | regardless. The only difference between the two patches is that one has | IUSE="..." and the other has IUSE_EXPAND="...". Right on, but portage is a lot more internal than ebuilds. |>Most importantly IMHO, it suggests that users should set |>USE="video_cards_foo" instead of VIDEO_CARDS="foo". | | | Users don't see it either way, so I can't see how it suggests anything. Let me narrow that to users who look at ebuilds to figure out wtf is going on with USE_EXPAND because they have no idea how to use it. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDOjbGXVaO67S1rtsRAobfAJ9MVftU8dklnq6t+MFaMrmHHbFtiQCg5o06 Lh26STJWnP8Ph6gJT5k9sus= =kv7o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
