On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 5:07 AM Sam James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andrew Ammerlaan <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > Currently we have 7 packages defining the efi flag and an additional 2 > > defining the uefi flag. These flags do the same thing, add support for > > (U)EFI booting. I therefore propose we introduce efi as a new global > > flag and later rename the uefi flag to efi in sys-apps/fwupd and > > sys-apps/ipmicfg. > > > > I don't have a strong preference between the efi or uefi flags, but > > since a majority of the packages has chosen efi I suggest we go with > > that. > > Let's do USE=uefi please - UEFI is the modern name for it, and EFI is > legacy. I'd like to avoid another USE=ssl situation (where we're > stuck with it forever given we have no mechanism for USE flag renames, > despite the fact that it's really TLS now).
Any thoughts on grub_platforms_efi-32 and grub_platforms_efi-64? If we want to rename USE flags, I would probably take the opportunity to eliminate the GRUB_PLATFORMS USE_EXPAND altogether.
