From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKEpE-0007dt-Jl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:44:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8RCaTsL030287; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:36:29 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8RCWthF015831 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:32:55 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j8RCfqWc005553 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:41:52 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:38:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND) From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200509271912.22758.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <200509271823.25788.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200509271139.10540@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200509271912.22758.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Ha6QHXCSVZeYiFDQPIHw" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:38:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1127824698.31328.14.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 7653746f-fe7b-4182-8c78-fef07c1adb17 X-Archives-Hash: 0af1f78844c7c0a7b51cb44a91e48f0d --=-Ha6QHXCSVZeYiFDQPIHw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:38, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:23, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > So what needs to be done to fix it? Well, what is the purpose of > > > USE_EXPAND? Put simply, it is to allow the user to select one or more > > > features of a package from a list of choices. How is this different t= o > > > USE flags? The choices all pertain to one aspect of the package(s). > > > > The way ELIBC, KERNEL, USERLAND are used, is instead something differen= t. > > They don't allow users to select what they want, they allow profiles to > > declare what they are created for. >=20 > Which leads me to the one thing I didn't say but feel strongest about.. W= hat=20 > is the real point of USE_EXPAND? What can/does it do that USE flags do no= t? As far as I can tell, it was created to keep people from adding a huge number of USE flags to IUSE on a package. I can't see any other reason for it. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-Ha6QHXCSVZeYiFDQPIHw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDOT06kT4lNIS36YERAvgyAJ0TjTdW6qWmFoje8VOzbouX7SMiVACfQ2cd UsdhfPrR6ZOY/+TD5Whu5hA= =ln0K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ha6QHXCSVZeYiFDQPIHw-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list