Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> 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. > No, USE_EXPAND is only a way to abbreviate use flags with a common substring > in their name, such as "impl_guile impl_sbcl impl_clisp" which could be > encoded interchangeably as either
You're kidding, right? > USE EXPAND Defines a list of variables which are to be treated incrementally > and who > contents are to be expanded into the USE variable as passed to ebuilds. > Expansion > done as per Algorithm 2. So, for example, if USE EXPAND contains ‘ALSA > CARDS’, an > the ALSA CARDS variable contains ‘foo’, ‘alsa_cards_foo’ will be > appended to USE. > Algorithm 2: USE EXPAND logic > for each variable V listed in USE EXPAND do > for each token T in V do > append v_T to USE, where v is the lowercase of V > end for > end for -- fonts / wxWindows / gcc-porting / treecleaners EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list