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From: Ruud Koolen <redlizard@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:13:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310261013.29571.redlizard@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131026074128.GB66946@gentoo.org>

On Saturday 26 October 2013 09:41:28 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> As you may or may not know, the prefix USE-flag is a hack that works in
> Portage, but violates specifications, because it is never defined in
> ebuilds that need it.  Discussions here go back to not wanting to show
> elibc_XXX, kernel_XXX in IUSE (because user can't influence them) and
> prefix likewise.  We should still solve this problem.  While we're at
> it, I'd like to tackle bug #473598 [1] at the same time.

Not so! Any USE flags that are globally masked or forced are in the 
implicit-iuse list. Or is that what you meant as the hack? I think it's 
specified somewhere.

> Anyway, I was thinking more along the lines of using USE_EXPAND.
> There's also a USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN, and something like this [2] looks
> good.  

USE_EXPAND is fine too, it's just a special case of a USE flag, after all. It 
is perhaps more elegant than plain USE flags, and my plan was based on 
kernel_* and friends anyway.

> In other words, I could think of having EPREFIX="$classic" or 
> EPREFIX_TARGET="$rap", which could default to $classic in
> base/make.defaults.

It should default to "" in base/make.defaults. Only the prefix profiles should 
set it to anything nonempty.

-- Ruud


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-25 22:54 [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants Ruud Koolen
2013-10-26  0:23 ` Greg Turner
2013-10-26  0:28   ` Ruud Koolen
2013-10-26  7:41 ` Fabian Groffen
2013-10-26  8:13   ` Ruud Koolen [this message]
2013-10-26  9:28     ` Fabian Groffen
2013-10-31 15:50       ` heroxbd
2013-10-29  7:40 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2013-10-29 22:02   ` Ruud Koolen
2013-10-31  5:03     ` Jeremy Olexa
2013-10-31  7:37     ` Michael Haubenwallner
2013-11-18  4:28 ` Ruud Koolen
2013-11-18  9:24   ` Fabian Groffen
2013-11-18 15:33     ` Ruud Koolen
2013-11-19 10:20       ` heroxbd
2013-11-19 11:37         ` Michael Haubenwallner
2013-11-19 15:48         ` Fabian Groffen
2013-11-19 10:13   ` heroxbd

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