Re: [gentoo-dev] On the use of bash-completion use flag

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

>> --- Comment #2 from Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> 2011-06-21 09:35:59 UTC ---
>> Afaik, the bash-completion eclass adds the use flag only to make
>> sure the user has bash-completion and eselect packages installed.
>> This is imho overkill and it indeed meets the point that was made
>> on the ml that installing one file that doesn't in itself depends
>> on anything doesn't warrant a USE flag. Maybe the discussion should
>> be brought to dev ML to make the situation clearer for
>> bash-completion too.

> OK let's hear from the ML. Another good thing from bash-completion
> eclass is that it advertises bash-completion in pkg_postinst (though
> some packages miss this). If we're OK for dev-libs/glib not to use
> bash-completion use flag, what about the others, drop the use flag?

With the flag, some additional files are installed _and_ additional
dependencies like app-shells/bash-completion (which will pull in
further dependencies) are required. Looks like a perfect case for a
USE flag to me. For example, users of embedded systems may not want to
install such additional packages.

Ulrich