Re: [gentoo-dev] USE variables in SRC_URI

[Mikael Hallendal <micke@codefactory.se>]

tis 2001-10-02 klockan 08.40 skrev Daniel Robbins:
> Hi devs,
> 
> I just added a new pre-release version of Portage to gentoo-src (developers
> only) CVS that allows you to use USE variables in the SRC_URI as follows:
> 
> SRC_URI="foo? ( http://www.foo.bar/meep.tar.gz )"
> 
> We will gradually start using these features.  But right now I need testers.
> If MAINTAINER is set to "yes", then all the USE variables in the SRC_URI will
> default to "on", so that maintainers will be forced to test all SRC_URIs and
> also cause complete digests to be generated.  You can also use the new "!foo?"
> syntax in SRC_URIs and soon in DEPENDS and RDEPENDS as well.  This new version
> of Portage also adds archive size to the digest files and uses a new file-based
> DEPEND and RDEPEND passing method (for behind-the-scenes bash <-> python
> integration.)

Hi!

This is great!

Both foo? in SRC_URI and !foo? is both really needed. 

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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