Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:18, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> Is there some way to set package-specific USE-flags in some config-file
> somewhere so I don't have to give it manually on the command-line each
> and every time I want to reemerge or upgrade the package? 
> If not, then that functionality would make my life (and probably many
> others too) alot easier. I just did an "update world" and after it
> finished I realised that I had to reemerge a couple of packages since my
> global USE-flags didn't comply with those I wanted for those specific
> packages. For example: I don't want QT-support built-in for most of the
> software on my machine so I have "-qt" in my USE-flag in make.conf, but
> since I want the qt-gui for licq I have to reemerge licq with USE="qt"
> after every single time licq is a part of an "update world". And just
> recently I had to lower the aggressiveness on my CFLAGS to be able to
> emerge mozilla-firebird. I don't want those slack CFLAGS for most of the
> packages in my system so I have to give the CFLAGS manually when
> emerging that package. 
> A suggestion on how to realise it would be package-specific USE-flags in
> make.conf or some other config-file under /etc. For example: If I
> would want qt-support in licq then I'd add LICQ_USE="qt" in make.conf or
> whatever where LICQ_USE is the package-name in uppercase followed by
> _USE. Since there are support for converting strings to uppercase in
> python I don't see a problem in implementing this feature.
> Has there been no request for this feature earlier? Or is there another
> obstacle in the way of implementing it?
> 
> Eagerly awaiting your response,
> Patrick Börjesson
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the long post. D.S.

this has been done by a friend of mine.
if you try searching the bug database for "package specific use flags"
perhaps, or his email (contains alkern) this might find something.
he wrote a portage patch.

Unfortunately i havent got a working browser right now, but it shouldnt
be hard to find. please post back if you couldnt find it.

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