On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:37:10 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> And now I can't figure out what I need to enable to have "rewrite" > work. Good job! > > The names match the internal module names, which is what I care about. > Figuring out if I need USE="zlib" or USE="compress" or even a combo > is a lot more effort and frustrating than having to enable the > useflag that has the name of the module. > > It might not be 'pure' or very aesthetical, but we try to get stuff > done here. > > I agree concering rewrite, USE=rewrite would be better suited for that. But zlib is a very obvious choice of USE flag, and most of the other flags I listed had (nearly) verbatim the same names as upstream's modules anyway (perl, geoip, auth_pam -> pam, auth_ldap -> ldap). I think the fact that we can use global USE's this way matters very much. If enable geoip or ldap in my make.conf, I expect packages with optional geoip/ldap support to enable this support. Also, if you wish to document this mapping in more detail, that's exactly what we have the <use> tags in metadata.xml for. You can even write whole sentences in there! :) Regards, Luis Ressel
