Re: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps

[Nathaniel Grady <nate@nutopia.org>]

gaim is one example - i *hate* having it built with gnome support because it ends up as a pannel applet then. Otherwise i use gnomesupport for everything else :)

--Nate Grady

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>     Some people have suggested that they would like to be able to set some
> USE variables for specific apps.....examples escape me, but I know it has
> been brought up.
> 
>     Anyways, I was thinking something along these lines would work:
> 
> ----
> # Global settings
> USE = "this that other etc"
> 
> # App specific
> USE-mozilla = "!this !that foo"
> ----
> 
> Basicaly, the syntax would be "USE-<appname>".  This portion should be
> simple enough to impliment, however the variables pose more of a problem
> since you dont want to have to repeat all of the normal USE settings for a
> specific app and most of the time you just want to specify a USE setting not
> to use (hence the !'s).  Special vars might be good here too, like
> "defaults" to inherit all the global USE settings...or "no-defaults" to
> ignore them all...
> 
> .....thats the general idea....comments?
> 
> -Tom
> 
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