Re: [gentoo-dev] feature request for X ebuild

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:31:47PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:

> BTW: what's the policy for creating new USE keywords? There's an awful lot 
> already, and it seems we might create one for every second package. There are 
> always package interdependencies. LyX can make use of some 20 packages, but 
> that's no reason for having a USE keyword for each of them! Maybe we should 
> have a setting "USE_ALL" that would always build all possible dependencies of 
> which a package can make use. This could be useful for testing etc.

USE flags are generally for *optional* build-time functionality.  We will have
a new USE system in a week or two to help deal with additional complexity:

USE="X(nvidia,ati) cpu(mmx,sse) db(postgresql,mysql)"

Additionally, we will support things like this:

"X(*)" (to enable all X-related extensions)

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.