On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:12:25 +0200 Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! > > On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off > > > system we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. > > > Please comment. > > > > This key=value systems sounds interesting. Another use could be > > the choice between xulrunner, seamonkey, firefox. We already have this with USE_EXPAND. Not exactly the same syntax, but I don't see a terrible problem in that, and we don't have to fix all three trillion related tools to handle it. Unless you can come up with a case that can't be handled with USE_EXPAND. > And maybe it can be alleviated for some of the virtuals problem > space. For those apps that need an editor, one could think of > editor=vim. I don't see how this is related at all, as the packages need an editor, but don't care which editor. So what would USE="editor=vim" do? Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
