El dom, 13-02-2011 a las 20:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:00:31 +0100 > Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > If rest of gnome team agrees, I think we could go with, but I still > > fail to see what is the "technical" problem on allowing CAMERAS="*" > > to be used :-| > > 'cameras_*' isn't a valid use flag name, so the package mangler can't > just pass the * through to the ebuild, which means it has to expand the > value itself. But there's no complete list of every CAMERA value > anywhere, so it can't. > > There were plans to fix this in EAPI 4 by requiring that IUSE be > accurate. That would have allowed the package mangler to use IUSE to > get a complete list of known CAMERAS and be able to expand * that way. > Unfortunately, that feature got dropped, and so in EAPI 4 you're still > allowed to make use of USE_EXPAND variables without making sure IUSE is > complete. >
Do you know if there are any plans on implementing it on a future EAPI? I think being able to simply enable all of them with "*" would be interesting (at least in the future) Thanks for the information
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